Aid for Bangkalan refugees

Aid for Bangkalan refugees

BANGKALAN, Madura Island: East Java's religious community, the
Chinese-Indonesian community in Surabaya and the East Java
Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) Muslim organization joint team for refugees,
gave aid to Sampit refugees in the village of Maeron and
Klambasan in the district of Sepuluh, Bangkalan regency on
Sunday.

The aid, consisting of 1,000 boxes of sanitary napkins for
women, 14 sacks of used clothes, 10 boxes of soap, 500 kilograms
of sugar, 110 boxes of mineral water, 20 boxes of coffee and 510
boxes of instant noodles, were handed over directly to the
refugees by the coordinator of the NU joint team for refugees,
Sholeh Hayat.

To date the Sepuluh district accommodates a total of 8,083
Madurese people who left the town of Sampit, Central Kalimantan,
following a massive outbreak of violence targeted at Madurese
people by local Dayaks.

According to Antara news agency, there are 58,576 Madurese who
have left their homes in Central Kalimantan. That number included
the latest group of 146 people who arrived by Navy war ship Teluk
Bone on Sunday.

"There are no more Madurese people left in Sampit, except
those who are hiding in the jungles," said Soleh. (sur)