
Indonesia teetering on the brink as COVID crisis intensifies – CARE staff in Jakarta report
CARE is deeply concerned about the intensifying COVID-19 crisis in Indonesia and the impact on vulnerable community members, including women and children.
Indonesia ranks 107 out of 189 on the Human Development Index (HDI). Yayasan CARE Peduli (CARE Indonesia) is a candidate member of the CARE International confederation that supports humanitarian and development programs inside Indonesia through technical support, advocacy, fundraising, and communications.
CARE International has been operating in Indonesia since 1967, initially working in food distribution, small infrastructure projects, health, environment, and water and sanitation.
In the wake of a series of crises in the late 1990s that included the 1997 financial crisis and widespread drought, CARE Indonesia redirected its focus towards emergency programming, including responding to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2018 Palu earthquake-tsunami.
Today, Yayasan CARE Peduli focuses on:
CARE is deeply concerned about the intensifying COVID-19 crisis in Indonesia and the impact on vulnerable community members, including women and children.
On Friday 15 January a powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake rocked West Sulawesi island, killing at least 37 people, destroying a hospital and severely damaging other buildings. It is estimated that around 2.17 million people have been affected.
One year after Palu, Sigi, Donggala and other areas of Central Sulawesi were shaken by a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake, and inundated by tsunami waters, thousands of women and girls face challenges in accessing safe shelter, water and sanitation facilities, as well as uncertainty about their future. Together over the last year, CARE and partners have constructed latrines and sanitation facilities, distributed shelter and kitchen kits and provided multipurpose cash grants.
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Despite facing the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and the aftermath of a tsunami, with connections to capital and local markets, people in Indonesia were able to improve their livelihoods.
9 month pregnant Citra describes the situation as the Indonesia earthquake hit in September 2018
Disasters have strongly increased in both frequency and impact, with climate change as one of the main contributors to more extreme, frequent, and unpredictable weather.
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