More aid for dead student's families

More aid for dead student's families

YOGYAKARTA: Vice President Hamzah Haz joined on Monday the
movement to financially assist the families who lost their
children in the horrific bus crash in Situbondo, East Java last
week.

Hamzah, accompanied by his wife Nani, donated Rp 4 million
(US$476) to the families of the 54 students and teachers of the
Yapemda I vocational senior high school in Sleman and their tour
guide, who were killed in the accident.

The Vice President also talked to the families during the
brief visit, offering his condolences.

"I can feel what the families experienced," he said.

Hamzah, who chairs the United Development Party (PPP), was
just one of the state officials who donated money to the families
of the victims.

Other donators include President Megawati Soekarnoputri,
Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare and People's
Consultative Assembly Speaker Amien Rais. They are also
presidential candidates of the Indonesian Democratic Party of
Struggle, Golkar Party and National Mandate Party respectively.

Noted Muslim preacher Abdullah Gymnastiar is scheduled to
visit the school on Tuesday for a mass prayer.

The school remained unable to resume activities on Monday as
it was still busy receiving people who came to offer their
sympathy. -- JP