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Oznewz: Relief and Supply News
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A linked site www.Indonesia-Relief.Org
is the internet's main documentation centre, library, and
clearing house on work in Indonesia following the 2004 Boxing Day
force nine earthquakes and tsunamis. It commenced in April 2005 as Phase 2 started, when Indonesia
assumed control for Aceh and Nias rehabilitation and reconstruction, on
phasing out the international presence which had helped in rescue,
relief and clean-up work. Article leads below under Aus-NZ Supply have links to articles in Indonesia-Relief's Aus-NZ Supply
page, where weekly articles were placed during May to end-July 2005. Articles on
this page with "Sydney" in the byline were researched, written and
edited by Oznewzer as Indonesia-Relief's trade correspondent. Australian and New Zealand supply of services, goods, equipment and
materials receive exposure here to the website's Indonesian and
international readers, who include local and foreign aid organisations ,
including procurement officers and advisors. |
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AusAID
Acted on WHO Strategies Addressing Mental Health Crisis |
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Contractors Sought For AusAID-Funded Public Service Strengthening |
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Trade
Mission Seeks Indonesian Partners for Participating Exporters |
| Aussie Timber Shipments Closer After UNJLC Moves to Help Monday, 18-July-2005, 10:42:35 UN Joint Logistics Committee in Aceh will now take a facilitating role in organising timber shipments. UNJLC will undertake to maintain only information on market prices, identify qualified suppliers, and provide details of relevant government regulations. (34 clicks) |
| Aussie Red Cross Into Simeulue and Nias Rebuilding Monday, 18-July-2005, 10:39:23 Basing a water and sanitation engineer on a fishing trawler travelling around Simeulue Island, Australian Red Cross is organising the building of building proper wells and installing rain-harvesting tanks on the island, to benefit about 20,000 people in twenty villages. (25 clicks) |
| More English Language Funding, But Aussie Visitors Must Learn Some Bahasa Monday, 18-July-2005, 10:36:47 In a new 2005-2007 contract, AusAID has confirmed funding for KangGURU Radio English (KGRE), whose English-language broadcasts got to nearly 100 Indonesian radio stations. The announcement was made in Bali as KGRE people officially celebrated the funding and move to new offices. (36 clicks) |
| Lam Bada's Few survivors Re-established in Fishing and Transport Monday, 18-July-2005, 10:33:50 About 15kms from Banda Aceh, only 570 of Lam Bada's village of 2,300 survived the tsunami on Boxing Day. But in July 05 the men are back working with new and rebuild fishing boats and the village has a bus, thanks to Austcare funding. (35 clicks) |
| Union Aid Accounts For A$1.2 Million So Far Wednesday, 06-July-2005, 12:28:34 Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA issued a report on Monday thanking Australian trade unions, organisations and individuals for donations totalling A$1,217,500 so far. The report accounted for A$245,000 spent assisting Aceh and Sri Lanka partners in emergency relief, saying the money was use efficiently by volunteer Indonesian doctors, nurses, paramedics and engineers. (61 clicks) |
| Trade Unions’ NGO Trains Builders But Needs More Microcredit Funding Wednesday, 06-July-2005, 12:24:37 Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA is helping hundreds of workers displaced from fishing industry, plantation and other industries devastated by the Boxing Day tsunamis, concentrating currently on job creation in building activities. (81 clicks) |
| NGO Chief Keen To Engage Aceh’s Anti Corruption Stance Monday, 04-July-2005, 08:57:16 Just back from visiting Aceh, World Vision Australia chief Tim Costello used a weekend Australia ABC radio interview to tell the donor public about his confidence in Kuntoro Mangkusubroto - head of the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency for Aceh and Nias. (82 clicks) |
| Engineers Anticipate Years of Aus-NZ Reconstruction Help Monday, 04-July-2005, 08:55:13 Engineering firms, well placed to specify reconstruction supply by their on-the-ground experience during the crisis relief phase, were prominent among Australian and NZ participants at the 'Reconstruction of Aceh' conference held in Jakarta Friday/Saturday. (100 clicks) |
| IOTWS: Aussies Credited But UNESCO Fears Long Implementation Monday, 04-July-2005, 08:51:38 Australia has been selected to host the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System Secretariat (IOTWS) at UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission office in Perth, in a meeting 3-5 August. (57 clicks) |
| NGO Partners Among Likely Applicants For New Aus-funded Scholarships Monday, 04-July-2005, 08:49:06 Aiming to support Aceh/Nias reconstruction and development efforts through education assistance, the Australian and Indonesian Governments have announced 600 new scholarships which will double the number of Australian-funded Indonesian post-graduate students to study in Australia over the next two years. (40 clicks) |
| Nias High in Aust Red Cross Intentions,UNICEF Aust Targets Schooling Wednesday, 29-June-2005, 07:05:02 Nias Island figures largely in 30 long term projects planned by Australian Red Cross, which has raised A$105 million. UNICEF Australia’s tsunami appeal raised A$15 million towards US$306 million UNICEF Worldwide funding this year. (118 clicks) |
| Australians Agonise on Slow Release of Tsunami Aid Wednesday, 29-June-2005, 07:00:43 Australian journalists covering the six months review of how Australian public donations of A$315 million are being used since the Boxing Day tsunamis found a ready critic in AidWatch’s Tim O’Connor, who noted only about A$100m had been spent on immediate relief, leaving the rest earning interest in banks as aid organisations waited on various delays affecting reconstruction efforts. (93 clicks) |
| Australia, Holland and Singapore Fund Aceh’s Port Reconstruction Wednesday, 29-June-2005, 06:57:20 UN Development Program’s port expert Gerry Byrne last week announced Calang and Sabang would be UNDP and Dinas Perhubungan Daerah’s next ports for reconstruction - with Calang vital for west coast shipping and fishing while Sabang has been selected as a hub to handle international sea traffic. (79 clicks) |
| AusAID's Education Sector Tender Winner Awaited Wednesday, 22-June-2005, 20:53:46 June 20 was AusAID's ''one step selection'' deadline for the A$1 million Aceh Rehabilitation Program - Education Sector Assistance Tender, put on behalf of AIPRD, the Australia Indonesia Partnership for Reconstruction and Development. (54 clicks) |
| Australian-Funded Port Restoration Project Approved by BRR Wednesday, 22-June-2005, 20:51:16 Ulee Lheu, Banda Aceh’s passenger ferry and small freight port was selected by the Australian Government for aid funding, to restore facilities which provide the only fast passenger ferry route between Banda Aceh and Sabang - the Pulo Rondo and Baruna Duta services whose vehicle ferry, Tanjung Burang, is still using Malahayati Port. (66 clicks) |
| Micro Credits Help Restore Brick Making Business Wednesday, 22-June-2005, 20:47:58 His 10,000 square metre brick-making operation wiped out by the tsunami, a Banda Aceh man called Zakaria is back in business thanks to an Opportunity International loan, supplying part of the daily 10,000 bricks required by Habitat for Humanity’s house building program. (49 clicks) | |||||||||||||||
| Belawan’s Conventional Coastal Shipments Can Complement Containers Roaded into Aceh Wednesday, 22-June-2005, 20:41:04 In addition to providing the main container feed port for Australian and other supply roaded into Aceh, Medan's port of Belawan in Northern Sumatra can also send non container loads by coastal shipping, using vessels like M/V Multi Sarana which run to Malahayati, Banda Aceh's freight port. (30 clicks) | |||||||||||||||
| Indonesia Bans Imported Timber for Aceh Reconstruction Saturday, 11-June-2005, 15:16:33 The need for wood in Aceh’s rehabilitation and reconstruction will be supplied from domestic sources. Therefore, the government will ban any wood to be purchased from foreign countries, but Indonesia is open if there is wood donations. (173 clicks) | |||||||||||||||
| Australian Suppliers Ought Not to Doubt the Acehnese Willingness to Work Monday, 06-June-2005, 07:39:35 Irrigation and Water Technologies (IWT) from Sydney’s outer western suburbs was typical of the about 80 manufacturers which attended the 27 January meeting addressed by UN procurement heads, attended by some 300 representatives of Australian companies, engineers and other consultants. (21 clicks) | |||||||||||||||
| Container Delays 'Cool Off' Aussies About Aiding Indonesians Monday, 06-June-2005, 07:36:00 Last week’s world news about negative attitudes towards Indonesians gave the impression of an Australian public frustrated by a court decision in Bali. But is this the only reason for an apparent rethink by Australians about donating towards Indonesian victims of natural disasters? (17 clicks) | |||||||||||||||
| What Happened to Aussie Suppliers So Interested Back in January? Monday, 06-June-2005, 07:31:55 Indonesia-Relief.Org wants to showcase materials, equipment and services offered for Aceh rebuilding, as offered by the many Australian suppliers, engineers and consultants who were keen to supply on 27 January, when the New South Wales (NSW) Department of State and Regional Development called a tsunami relief seminar. But no showcase resulted. But no showcase resulted. Austrade holds the list like a secret document, available only to vetted requests. (20 clicks) | |||||||||||||||
| Extending Credit for Craft Industry Could Foster Aceh Reconstruction Monday, 06-June-2005, 07:22:36 There’s another tool for getting reconstruction started by Aceh people themselves - extending credit for craft industry to buy needed equipment to get on with fabricating materials needed for rebuilding. Australian has enough experience on this approach. (14 clicks) | |||||||||||||||
| BHP Gets Behind OIA's Indonesian Efforts Monday, 30-May-2005, 18:22:01 No stranger to business in Indonesia, Australia's biggest public company is funding the microcredit concept to share some of the benefits back to local communities that would normally be issued to its shareholders. (80 clicks) | |||||||||||||||
| Good Future Predicted for MFIs Delivering Microcredit Monday, 30-May-2005, 18:18:45 The attention being paid to microfinance schemes in Aceh lines up with massive growth in the numbers of clients that are expected throughout the world once microfinance becomes mainstreamed. That's according to a newspaper interview recorded by Opportunity International Australia (OIA), defining MFIs (micro finance institutions) as NGOs providing microcredit which are ‘’fully and virtually exclusively dedicated to offering financial services.’’ (65 clicks) | |||||||||||||||
| Concept Where Neighbours With More Fund Those With Less Monday, 30-May-2005, 18:15:45 The concept of microcredit to get small businesses going in poor communities involves giving by neighbours at two levels - first by international donors to set up the communities, then by the communities themselves in re-issuing the lent money after it is repaid with fair interest. (74 clicks) | |||||||||||||||
| NGO Expects To Expand Its Aceh Microcredit Partnerships Monday, 30-May-2005, 18:10:50 Opportunity International is very definitely and decisively already on the ground for operations in Aceh which have already started in Banda Aceh. This was confirmed by Paul Peters, the NGO’s CEO for Australia. (130 clicks) | |||||||||||||||
| Possible Australian Supply for Aceh Fertiliser Plants Monday, 23-May-2005, 16:31:00 Getting relief supplies of gas to Aceh’s fertiliser plants could present big business for Australian based natural gas producer-shippers. There may be spin-off opportunities also for service and other providers helping Aceh’s fertiliser production and distribution. (64 clicks) | |||||||||||||||
| World Bank Bigger Aid Help NZ’s Supply Chances Monday, 23-May-2005, 16:27:21 International projects for NZ businesses are expected to follow after a trade commissioner from New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) was appointed as Private Sector Liaison Officer (PSLO) to the World Bank Group. (96 clicks) | |||||||||||||||
| Getting Seamless Container Supply Put Before Aceh Peoples' Needs Monday, 23-May-2005, 16:24:13 Aceh's slow pace of reconstruction continues to be blamed on ports that can't yet take containers. Why aren't suppliers talking to agents for ships that can unload cargo the way before containerisation? (51 clicks)
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