Disaster Risk Reduction Film to Remember Aceh's Tsunami | The Jakarta Globe

Remembering Aceh's tsunami disaster eight years ago, a new disaster risk reduction movie premieres this week.

 

Premiering on Dec. 20, "Pesan Dari Samudra" ("Message From the Ocean") tells the story of a family in Indonesia battling a disaster situation. 

"Pesan Dari Samudra" is a 76-minute feature film made by renowned Indonesian filmmakers Mira Lesmana and Riri Riza. 



This groundbreaking project, funded by the Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction (AIFDR), is an initiative from the Australian Red Cross.
 
“AIFDR was pleased to support this film as it explains what to do, and what not to do, in the case of an earthquake or tsunami,” co-director of AIFDR Matt Hayne said in a statement received by the Jakarta Globe blogs.
 
"Pesan Dari Samudra" will be aired on Metro TV, Dec. 29 at 9:30 p.m. The airing is  eight years after the devastating tsunami struck Indonesia on Dec. 26, 2004.



“Indonesia is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world. This film is one of the many strategies being undertaken by AIFDR to spread key survival messages to those who may be impacted by natural disasters,” Hayne said. 



For more information about the film, click here: www.pesandarisamudra.com

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Karin Andreasson
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 20 December 2012 17.04 GMT

Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation, but nowhere is the faith more strictly interpreted than in Aceh, sometimes referred to as the 'verandah of Mecca' because it was one of the first parts of the archipelago to turn to Islam. Aceh is Indonesia's only province to have implemented sharia, or Islamic laws

Two journalists reportedly assaulted in Aceh

The Jakarta Post | Thu, 12/13/2012 9:46 AM | Archipelago

A journalist group in Aceh has urged local police to investigate the attack against two journalists in East Aceh.

Ivo Lestari, an RCTI TV station contributor, and Yusri, a journalist from Harian Aceh, were reportedly assaulted by two men at a lumber mill in Teumpeum village, Peureulak district on Tuesday.

Ivo said that she and Yusri planned to run a story on illegal logging in the village as they heard from local residents that the lumber mill collected illegal logs.

Both journalists were accompanied by two residents.

Ivo tried to take pictures of piles of logs at the back of the mill when two men approached her and forced her to delete the pictures.

The men, Ivo said, later seized their cameras and press IDs before locking them up for around 30 minutes in a room. “They [the men] deleted all our pictures,” said Ivo.

Head of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) branch in Aceh, Maimun Saleh, urged the police to investigate the case.

“We cannot let this happen because such violence is in violation of Law No.40/1999 on press. The law stipulates that journalists have the right to cover stories and spread the information to the public,” Maimun said, adding that journalists, on the other hand, had to follow the code of ethics in covering stories.