Jamsostek allocates Rp 52b for disaster survivors<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
State-owned insurance company PT Jamsostek has allocated as much
\nas Rp 52 billion to assist workers affected by the tsunami in
\nAceh and North Sumatra.<\/p>\n
Jamsostek president Achmad Djunaidi told The Jakarta Post here
\non Tuesday the company had decided to compensate all workers
\naffected by the disaster, whether they were on or off duty at the
\ntime of the tragedy.<\/p>\n
\"We will provide compensation and aid to all workers and their
\nfamilies who were killed or injured in the tsunami. This is part
\nof the government's program to deal with the disaster and to help
\nthe province recover from this tragedy,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Djunaidi said on-duty workers killed in the disaster
\nwould receive 4,000 percent of their gross monthly salary and
\ntheir pension fund, while off-duty workers who were killed would
\nreceive less.<\/p>\n
\"Jamsostek will also provide scholarships for children of
\naffected workers up through high school,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Mustofa Zainal, the head of Jamsostek's branch in Banda Aceh,
\nthe capital of Aceh, said his office was still making inventory
\nof killed and injured workers, their families, and the companies
\nwhere they were employed at the time of the disaster.<\/p>\n
All of the records on workers participating in Jamsostek were
\nsafely recovered after the tsunami because they were kept on the
\nsecond floor of the building.<\/p>\n
\"Jamsostek's branch offices in Banda Aceh, Lhokseumawe and
\nMeulaboh resumed operations last week with an initial mission of
\ndistributing Rp 2 billion in humanitarian aid and medicine to
\ndisaster survivors. This week we will begin paying compensation
\nto relatives of workers killed or injured in the disaster,\" he
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Mustofa said his office had identified 200 of 659 workers at
\ncement factory PT Semen Andalas who were killed while working at
\nthe time of the disaster and would pay full compensation to their
\nrelatives.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Binawan Institute of Health Sciences (Stikes
\nBinawan) is seeking to cooperate with local and foreign
\ninstitutions to deploy about 200 students to help survivors of
\nthe disaster.<\/p>\n
\"We cannot bar our students from going to Aceh but we don't
\nwant them to cause trouble or to burden the Acehnese. We are
\nmaking contact with the Indonesian Red Cross, Ausaid, USAID, WHO
\nand several foreign institutions involved in humanitarian
\noperations in Aceh and North Sumatra,\" Stikes director Saleh
\nAlwaini said at a meeting with students preparing to leave for
\nAceh.<\/p>\n
Saleh said the Golkar Party and Save the Children had agreed
\nto cooperate with Stikes to deploy students to work as
\nvolunteers.<\/p>\n
The students, most of whom will leave to work in Australia in
\nApril, will gain work experience during their deployment as
\nhealth workers and paramedics.<\/p>\n
Saleh said his institution would not take any responsibility
\nfor the safety of the students while in Aceh. \"The students'
\ndeparture is being organized by the Stikes student executive
\nboard with the approval of their parents.\"<\/p>\n
Nurul Arifin, a Golkar member and volunteer who spent 10 days
\nhelping disaster survivors in Lhokseumawe, told the students to
\nprepare themselves physically and mentally before going to Aceh.<\/p>\n
\"You should not go to Aceh and burden people already in a
\ndifficult situation. The longer you stay there, the more problems
\nyou might face,\" she said.<\/p>",
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