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Indonesian Survivors in Sendai Need Blankets, Food, Water
March 13, 2011

People collecting fresh water outside a school east of Sendai, Japan, on Sunday. A group of Indonesian survivors of the earthquake and tsunami calamity in Japan who are sheltering in an emergency camp in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, are in need of food and water, the Indonesian Embassy in Tokyo says. (AFP Photo) People collecting fresh water outside a school east of Sendai, Japan, on Sunday. A group of Indonesian survivors of the earthquake and tsunami calamity in Japan who are sheltering in an emergency camp in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, are in need of food and water, the Indonesian Embassy in Tokyo says. (AFP Photo)
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A group of Indonesian survivors of the earthquake and tsunami calamity in Japan who are sheltering in an emergency camp in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, are in need of food and water, the Indonesian Embassy in Tokyo says.

State news agency Antara reported that 28 survivors, including some who may be suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, were currently sheltering at Sanjo Junior High School in the city.

The Embassy said that though members of the group were in good conditions, they were short of blankets, heaters, food and water.

There is no electricity at the school or in much of the city.

Two teams from the Embassy are currently in the city distributing bottled water, tissue, antiseptics, baby food, and medicine.

In total, 68 Indonesian adults and 21 children have been accounted for at the high school or other emergency centers in the city.

Another 15 Indonesians have been contacted by phone but their locations are still unknown.

Information on the Indonesian refugees in Sendai and Ibaraki can be accessed from the Embassy Web site, www2.indonesianembassy.jp.

Sendai on Saturday, endured a pitch-black and cold night amid a power blackout.

Sendai Teishin Hospital spokesman Masayoshi Yamamoto told AFP the building was able to keep its lights on using its own power generators, drawing in survivors.

Around 50 people arrived looking to shelter from the cold night air in the lobby of the downtown Sendai city hospital, he said.

“Many of them are from outside Miyagi prefecture, who had visited some patients here or came in search of essential medicines,” he said, adding that people were without electricity and water.

But with water supply cut, Yamamoto said hospital officials were worried about how long its tank-based supply would last. The hospital may also run out of food for its patients by Monday.

“We have asked other hospitals to provide food for us, but transportation itself seems difficult,” he said.

Friday’s 8.9 magnitude quake, one of the biggest ever recorded, unleashed a terrifying tsunami that engulfed towns and cities on Japan’s northeastern coast, destroying everything in its path in what Prime Minister Naoto Kan said was an “unprecedented national disaster.”

A team of Indonesian volunteers from Dompet Dhuafa, meanwhile, had arrived in Yamagata to help in the emergency effort.

Another team from the humanitarian organization had been called into action on Saturday helping evacuate people stuck on a train in Tokyo, Antara reported.

Dompet Dhuafa was also attempting to raise money in Indonesia for the victims in Japan.

Antara/AFP/JG