Tsunami VCD sells well

BATAM, Riau Islands: Tragic scenes of the tsunami disaster aired on television are now available on VCD and have became a bestseller for traders in Batam.

Priced between Rp 10,000 (US$1.1) and Rp 20,000 each, traders said on Friday that more and more people were looking for the VCD.

A sidewalk trader in Tanjung Pantun market said the VCD had hit the market on Jan. 15, and he had been supplied with 30 copies every three days. "Now only five copies remain," he said.

The VCD is titled Bencana Tsunami Aceh (Aceh's Tsunami Disaster), though the name of its distributor is not known.

"I don't know whether the VCDs are pirated or not, I just get them from other traders, and since they sell well, I continue to stock them," Rahmat said. -- JP