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        "id": 1805566,
        "msgid": "universities-urged-to-engage-in-post-disaster-recovery-1781581941",
        "date": "2026-06-16 10:10:22",
        "title": "Universities urged to engage in post-disaster recovery",
        "author": "",
        "source": "ANTARA_ID",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Social Policy",
        "summary": "Indonesia's Sumatra Post-Disaster Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Task Force is calling on universities to participate in recovery efforts, starting with strengthening health services for flood survivors in Aceh Tamiang. Syiah Kuala University's Faculty of Medicine has deployed specialist doctors and psychologists to temporary shelters to provide medical care and trauma healing. The initiative aims to ensure community safety while generating field data to inform government recovery policy.",
        "content": "<p>The Sumatra Post-Disaster Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (PRR)\nTask Force is encouraging university involvement in post-disaster\nrecovery by strengthening health services for flood survivors in Aceh\nTamiang. Head of the Aceh Regional Command Post for the task force,\nSafrizal Zakaria Ali, stated in Jakarta on Tuesday that ensuring public\nsafety, particularly in the health sector, is a top priority in\npost-disaster handling. As a follow-up, Safrizal initiated university\nparticipation in recovery through Syiah Kuala University\u2019s (USK) Faculty\nof Medicine, which held a health service strengthening activity at\ntemporary shelters for Aceh Tamiang flood survivors on Monday (15\/6).\n\u201cIn an emergency, it is not the community who should come forward, but\nthe doctors. This is part of the university\u2019s service to society,\u201d said\nSafrizal, who also serves as Chair of the Syiah Kuala University Board\nof Trustees. USK deployed a team of specialist doctors, including\npaediatric cardiologists, obstetricians and gynaecologists, and\npsychologists, to assist with post-disaster health recovery and trauma\nhealing. He also requested the USK team to report various field findings\nas input for the government in strengthening recovery efforts. \u201cThe team\nthat has gone into the community, please record what can be given to me,\nwhether as Chair of the Board of Trustees or as Head of the Disaster\nTask Force Command Post. Advise us on what we can do,\u201d he said. Safrizal\nemphasised that knowledge finds its meaning when it can benefit society.\n\u201cKnowledge is not merely knowledge; it finds its meaning when it can\nprovide benefit to humanity,\u201d he stated. Data from the Ministry of\nHealth and the PRR Task Force Command Post as of 8 June 2026 shows that\nall regional public hospitals and community health centres in the three\naffected provinces that had temporarily ceased operations have returned\nto normal operation. Of the total 2,952 auxiliary community health\ncentres, 99.76 percent have recovered, leaving six units still using\nreplacement buildings. Beyond focusing on health services, Safrizal\u2019s\nworking visit to Aceh Tamiang also reviewed the fulfilment of basic\ncommunity needs, particularly the provision of clean water. He directly\ninspected a borehole well built by the PRR Task Force in Gampong Johar,\nwhich has now become the main water source for local residents. The\nworking visit concluded with an inspection of the Mon Krueng Baro\nregional water company facility, which suffered damage to its intake\nmachinery and thousands of metres of customer piping due to the\ndisaster. To address these constraints, Safrizal announced the task\nforce will soon distribute 25 tonnes of food-grade polyaluminium\nchloride to support mass water purification.<\/p>",
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