Tsunami mass grave of Siron,Aceh Besar,Indonesia
Vice-president and wife visit mass grave for disaster victims
The Indonesian Vice President paid tribute to victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami in the capital of Aceh province, Banda Aceh, on Friday.
Accompanied by his wife Mudifah, Vice President Jusuf Kalla laid flowers at the Siron mass grave site and prayed for the tsunami victims.
There are two mass graves in Banda Aceh - Siron and Ulee Lhue - where tens of thousands of people, mostly anonymous, were buried.
More than 46-thousand people were buried at Siron.
Aceh, at the western tip of Indonesia, was the area most severely affected by the tsunami in 2004.
Around 170-thousand people were declared dead in Aceh province.
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Acehnese visit tsunami mass graves on anniversary
(26 Dec 2005) SHOTLIST
1. Pan form the mass graves to the people praying
2. Close up of candles
3. Various shots of people praying
4. Close up of woman praying
5. Close up of prayer book
6. Women praying on the ground
7. Mid of woman praying
8. Flowers on the graves
9. Various of people praying
10. Wide of people praying
11. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian): Risde, housewife, lost her husband in the tsunami:
I'm here to pray for my family and relatives who died because of tsunami. And also I would like to thank God because my kids are still alive. Though the kids don't want to go back to Aceh because they are still traumatised.
12. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian): Mohammad Paufik, Chinese businessman who lost his children and relatives in tsunami:
I'm praying to God for my families who died and I hope they can rest in peace and have a better future in heaven.
13. Wide of temporary shelter where tsunami survivors are living
14. Various of huts
15. Close up of megaphone
16. Kids watching
17. Various of men praying
18. Men sitting in a hut
19. Various of people preparing food
STORYLINE
Indonesia marked the first anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster on Monday with a moment of silence and prayer for the some 130-thousand people killed and 37-thousand missing in the provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra.
People in the Indonesian province of Aceh gathered for prayers at mass graves, in mosques, temples and churches to remember those swept away by the wave.
Risde, who lost her husband said she came to the mass grave to pray for her family and relatives who died in the tsunami.
She said she also came to thank God because her kids were still alive.
Mohammad Paufik, a Chinese businessman, was in Indonesia during the tsunami. He lost his children and relatives in the disaster.
I'm praying to the god for my families who died and I hope they can rest in peace and have a better future in the heaven, he said.
Survivors who are still living in temporary shelter following the disaster also prayed for their loved ones.
The tsunami first smashed into Aceh, which was closest to the epicentre of the earthquake that sent 10-metre-high (33-foot-high) waves across the Indian Ocean.
At least 216-thousand people were killed or disappeared in the South Asian tsunami, according to official reports, but the true toll will probably never be known.
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Friends and families of the victims who lost their lives to the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami on Wednesday attended a commemoration ceremony at the Siron Tsunami Mass Grave, in an Indonesian province of Aceh, in remembrance of their loved ones.
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Aceh preparations for anniversary
SHOTLIST
1. Various of Banda Aceh streets
2. Various of people in market
3. Various of people looking through tsunami memorial calendars
4. Various of calendar pictures showing tsunami debris, victims
5. Pan of coffee shop
6. People having coffee
7. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Ilyas, Vox pop:
Now the town is back to normal, a year after the tsunami. The most important thing is the security situation in Aceh is peaceful. That's why shopkeepers can keep their shops open until late at night.
8. Glass of coffee and food on the table
9. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Mustaqim Ibnu:
What the Acenese people need now is help from the Muslim countries, especially for their spirits, to help them out from the situation so they can be raised up for a better future.
10. Various of people repairing the buildings to prepare for the anniversary
11. Cutaway of shots of security officials watching
12. People preparing in the main area for the ceremony
13. Sign reading, Tsunami run 10 kilometres
14. Various of runners
15. Starter fires a pistol
16. Various of runners
STORYLINE
Christmas celebrations were muted on Sunday in regions struck by the Indian Ocean tsunami last year, as mourners mixed with revellers on beaches where some of the hundreds of thousands of victims died.
The December 26 tsunami killed 131,000 people in the Indonesian province of Aceh alone.
Aid workers joined more than 100 people from the small Christian community at an 18th century Catholic church that still bears deep cracks in the walls from the massive earthquake that spawned the disaster.
Tsunami memorial calendars were being sold with pictures of the destruction.
Aceh's largest mass grave holds some 46,000 bodies, dumped three-deep in pits which were hastily dug in the days after the waves struck.
One year on, relatives of those who died flocked to the site to pray for their loved ones - and to try to come to terms with their grief.
Residents were repairing the gates to the grave site in preparation for the anniversary memorial to be held on Monday.
A 10 kilometre (seven mile) run was also held to remember a similar event that was disrupted by the tsunami a year ago, killing many participants.
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Tsunami-hit nations mark anniversary
Memorial services are being held in Indonesia and other nations for the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami on the 10th anniversary of the disaster.
In Indonesia's province of Aceh - the worst hit area - Vice-President Jusuf Kalla led tributes to the dead at the Siron mass grave.
Memorial ceremonies will also take place in Thailand and Sri Lanka.
More than 200,000 people died when an underwater earthquake set off massive waves on 26 December 2004.
In Aceh's capital, Banda Aceh, Mr Kalla thanked local volunteers and the outside world for helping Aceh recover from the tragedy. He also presented awards to ambassadors from the donor nations.
Thousands of corpses were sprawled in this field he said. Tears that fell at that time... there were feelings of confusion, shock, sorrow, fear and suffering. We prayed.
Earlier, thousands of people earlier gathered at the city's Great Mosque - a 19th Century building that was one of the few structures in the town to survive the tsunami.
The mosque's imam, Asman Ismail, said the tsunami had taught a valuable lesson to Aceh, which had been the scene of an armed conflict for nearly 30 years.
After the tsunami, no-one fights against each other, people live in harmony and peace till this day, he said.
Efforts to end the conflict resumed after the tsunami, culminating in a peace deal between the government and the rebels in August 2005.
In Thailand, people are marking the anniversary with a series of solemn events and religious rites throughout the day.
In the small fishing village of Ban Nam Khem, Phang Nga province, people have been laying flowers at a memorial wall displaying names of the victims.
The village was devastated by the massive waves.
Nearly 5,500 people died in Thailand, half of whom were foreign tourists.
In Sri Lanka, the Ocean Queen Express train - which has become a symbol of the tragedy for the nation - is at the centre of commemorative events.
The overcrowded train was hit by the tsunami south of the capital Colombo. More than 1,700 people died, in what was the world's biggest rail disaster.
Survivors and relatives of those who died boarded the restored train carriage and headed to Peraliya, where the train was struck.
Sweden, which lost over 500 of its citizens in the disaster, will hold a memorial service in the Uppsala Cathedral later on Friday.
The strength of the quake off Indonesia's coast - the biggest tremor in the world since 1964 - unleashed giant waves that rushed across the Indian Ocean.
The tsunami also hit Bangladesh, Myanmar, Malaysia, the Maldives and later reached the east African nations' of Kenya, Somalia and Tanzania.
Tsunami warning systems and emergency procedures have been implemented since the disaster to try to minimise casualties in the future.
INDONESIA: VICTIMS OF SILKAIR JETLINER CRASH GIVEN MASS FUNERAL
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The victims of last month's Singaporean jetliner crash in Indonesia have been given a mass funeral.
The funeral was largely symbolic as most of the victims bodies could not be recovered from the crash site -- a fast flowing jungle river in Sumatra.
Distraught relatives and friends cast earth and flowers into a huge common grave -- one month after the jetliner plunged into the river, killing all 104 aboard.
Ninety-three wooden caskets were laid out in rows and covered with bouquets on the muddy floor of the pit.
The service, in a Palembang flower garden about 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the crash site, was a largely symbolic ritual.
The SilkAir Boeing 7-3-7 fell out of the sky on a routine flight from Jakarta to Singapore and disintegrated on impact.
Divers and search boats spent weeks looking but only recovered a few human body parts, most of which could not be identified, from the murky, fast-flowing Musi River on the island of Sumatra.
Families and SilkAir officials agreed to put the remains in only two coffins.
Some relatives placed personal belongings and messages for their loved ones in the other caskets, which each carried the name of one victim.
The uniform of the jetliner's captain was laid out in one.
Buddhist mourners threw colorful notes into the grave, representing money for the dead to spend on their passage into the afterlife.
Others laid out apples, rice, chocolates and other offerings in the hot tropical sun.
In all, people of nine faiths, including Muslims, Christians and Jews, attended the funeral.
Most of the mourners were flown to Palembang by SilkAir.
Of the 104 families involved, 13 decided not to take part, opting to hold private services instead.
The remains of only six victims were identified.
Three of them were buried along with the unidentified remains.
The others were handed over to their families.
Two victims whose remains were identified were from the United States.
The others were from Germany, France, Malaysia and Singapore.
Most on board had been from Singapore and Indonesia.
Clergymen at the scene said the loss felt by relatives and friends was magnified by the fact that no intact bodies had been found.
Authorities have yet to determine why the plane crashed on December 19.
The plane's flight data and voice recorders were recovered, and the U-S National Transportation Safety Board is studying their contents at its laboratory in Washington.
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INDONESIA: JAKARTA: 15 KILLED AS FIRE SWEEPS THROUGH SKYSCRAPER
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At least 15 people were killed when fire swept through a skyscraper housing Indonesia's central bank on Monday.
Flames punched holes in windows, showering glass into the street, and thick smoke billowed from several gutted floors of the partly occupied, 25-storey Bank Indonesia building in central Jakarta.
Fire officials believe that faulty electrical wiring in the newly constructed building could have sparked the blaze that engulfed the upper floors of one of Jakarta's main skyscrapers.
Panes of blue glass and other debris cascaded from the building into the parking lot below.
Fire trucks rushed to the site and trained hoses on the building, but jets of water failed to reach flames at the top.
The fire gutted at least three top floors. About 200 people were evacuated according to a Bank Indonesia official.
There's speculation over whether the high death toll can be partly blamed on poor safety regulations within the building.
One bank official, who did not give his name, said the emergency elevator did not work.
Among those killed in the fire were a Central Bank staffer, a security guard, cleaners and three workers who were installing new elevators.
Firefighters pried open the doors of an elevator to find six bodies, but it was not immediately known if they died of smoke inhalation or were burned to death.
Although construction has not yet been completed, offices on lower floors have been occupied.
Helicopters flew over the building, dumping water.
About 70 firefighters were working inside the twin tower.
At least five people suffering smoke inhalation were taken away in ambulances.
It was another crisis for the central bank, which has been at the centre of efforts to prop up Indonesia's ailing currency. The rupiah has lost 40 per cent of its value since July amid steep drops in Southeast Asian currencies.
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Three years after the tsunami, people still live in temporary housing
1. Wide shot of Baiturrahman Mosque in Banda Aceh
2. Street scene of Banda Aceh
3. Wide pan of Ulee Lhue, an area badly hit by tsunami
4. Long shot of destroyed house
5. Various of Nuraida, 30 years-old, washing clothes
6. Girl watching from doorway
7. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Nuraida, House wife:
BRR (Aceh rehabilitation and reconstruction agency) have said that they'll build houses for us in the area of Lambaro. But at the end, they told me that the area is not suitable.
8. Wide shot of temporary housing in Ulee Lhue
9. Children with her mother on verandah of temporary house
10. Ardiansyah, 34, chatting with neighbour
11. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Ardiansyah, Fisherman:
There's nothing we can do but stay here. They gave us a house but its located at the hill. Its difficult for us to work. As fisherman, I hope the government can consider to build a house near the beach.
12. Various shot of new empty houses
13. Tilt down of tsunami commemoration monument
14. Close-up of plaque reading (Indonesian): Monument No. 39. Tsunami 26 Dec 2007. Water level high 4.80 metres. Distance from the beach 2.50 kilometres. First wave arrives 8.30 a.m. (30 minutes after earthquake 8,9SR)
15. Wide shot of Lambaro mass grave
16. Various of people praying at Lambaro mass grave
STORYLINE:
Three years after the Indian Ocean tsunami caused massive damage in 12 countries, the impact of the reconstruction work is visible along the coast of Indonesia's Aceh province, the region hit hardest by the December 26 disaster.
The head of the government reconstruction agency said the work was around 80 percent complete.
Some fear a hard landing when major reconstruction work comes to an end around mid-2008.
The aid that has built roads, schools and more than 100,000 homes has also powered local economies.
Aid agencies hired thousands of construction workers, rented homes and offices, employed drivers and translators and patronised restaurants and hotels.
The massive injection of money boosted the largely agriculture-based economy in Aceh, home to 4.2 (m) million people.
By April 2009, when the reconstruction agency's mandate officially ends, Indonesia expects to have spent 8 (b) billion US dollars in Aceh, 1.9 (b) billion US dollars more than the estimated cost of repairs.
The extra funds will enable the province to build back better, according to the reconstruction agency.
For example, the four-lane highway, funded mainly by the US government, is replacing a two-lane coastal road that in some places was completely washed away.
AP Television interviewed residents on Tuesday living in temporary housing in Ulee Lhue, a coastal area near the provincial capital, Banda Aceh.
Some of the residents expressed dissatisfaction with their housing.
BRR (Aceh rehabilitation and reconstruction agency) have said that they'll build houses for us in the area of Lambaro. But at the end, they told me that the area is not suitable, said Nuraida, a 30-year-old housewife.
Ardiansyah, a fisherman, said: There's nothing we can do but stay here. They gave us a house but its located at the hill. Its difficult for us to work. As fisherman, I hope the government can consider to build a house near the beach.
Aid agencies and the government acknowledge the problems, saying that with hundreds of thousands left homeless after the tsunami, they were under intense pressure to build as many homes as they could, and do so quickly.
Aceh, on Sumatra island's west coast, was near the epicentre of the powerful undersea earthquake that caused the tsunami.
More than 115,000 people were killed in Indonesia, mostly in Aceh.
In Lambaro, a village near Banda Aceh, relatives prayed on Tuesday at a mass grave where many victims are buried.
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Tsunami-hit nations mark anniversary
Memorial services have been held in Indonesia and other nations for the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami on the 10th anniversary of the disaster.
In Indonesia's province of Aceh - the worst-hit area - Vice-President Jusuf Kalla led tributes to the dead at the Siron mass grave.
Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha also laid a wreath of remembrance.
More than 200,000 people died when an underwater earthquake set off massive waves on 26 December 2004.
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1. Workers finishing memorial to victims of Tsunami
2. Tsunami Victim Cemetery entrance
3. Sign: (English and Thai): Tsunami Victim Cemetery
4. Pan of graves
5. Close up grave marker with registration number
6. Grave markers
7. Workers making concrete coffins
8. Concrete coffin covers
9. Various of Tsunami Victim Identification and Repatriation Centre entrance
10.Various of refrigerated vans where corpses are being kept
11. Various of workers at memorial
12. Set-up, Nitinai Sornsongkram, Tsunami Victim Cemetery site manager, talking to worker
13. SOUNDBITE: (Thai), Nitinai Sornsongkram, Tsunami Victim Cemetery site manager:
We changed the way of keeping the bodies because we don't know how long it will take (for the bodies to be claimed), and because it can be costly. At the same time, the effectiveness of the (refrigerated) containers that were donated by many firms is nearing its end. Maintaining them may make us spend more than we expect. So that's why we changed the way of keeping the bodies from freezing to burial.
14. Memorial
15. Various, cemetery workers.
STORYLINE:
Workers are putting the finishing touches to a memorial that will mark the graves of nearly 500 people still unidentified from the tsunami that killed an estimated 5,400 people in Thailand almost two years ago.
The Tsunami Victim Cemetery will officially open on December 26 to mark the second anniversary of the calamity in the Bang Muang district in the province of Phang Gna, hardest hit by the giant waves of 2004.
The nine acre (3.6 hectare) cemetery will hold up to 480 graves. Some 300 unidentified bodies have been buried below ground in concrete boxes since October, according to an official at the Tsunami Victim Cemetery.
The corpses were previously kept frozen inside refrigerated vans at the Thai Tsunami Victim ID Centre but now the decision has been made to build a cemetery instead because of mounting costs.
Maintaining them (referring to the refrigerated containers) may make us spend more than we expect. So that's why we changed the way of keeping the bodies from freezing to burial,'' said Nitinai Sornsongkram, the Tsunami Victim Cemetery site manager:
Each grave is labelled with a registration number given to the corpse with a register of DNA profiles for possible future identification.
The bodies are the last unidentified victims of the tragedy, which killed more than 5,400 people along Thailand's Andaman Sea coast and more than 216,000 people in 12 countries in total.
A final batch of 110 unidentified corpses is scheduled to be buried this week. Several bodies that have been identified but remain unclaimed will not be buried for the time being.
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