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Secretary General of Indonesian Social Affairs Ministry, Hartono Laras said that his side has provided psychosocial or trauma healing to earthquake and tsunami victims in Central Sulawesi. The healing is provided since most of the victims at the refugees center especially children had depression. During the Forum Merdeka Barat 9 in Jakarta on Tuesday, October 2018, Hartono explained that psychosocial support team of the Social Affairs Ministry has worked together with socials agencies and universities. Beside psychosocial assistance, the ministry also prepared logistic aid that are currently stored in the regional warehouse around Central Sulawesi.   

“The psychosocial service gives support and advice to the stressfull children and depressed elderly. Because there are many people in the refugee camp still wonder what happen. So we arrived with psychosocial team that supported by universities, and social department. We send them all to Palu. For logistic, we want to say here that logistic around Central Sulawesi such as Gorontalo, North Sulawesi, Makassar are mobilized. Our regional warehouse is ready. In Makasar for instance, our regional warehouse is in Salodong, one warehouse contain food, clothes and they are ready to use during disaster,” said Hartono Laras.

Hartono further explained that they will give moral support to the victims in a form of play therapy, community based, and assessment approach. The team will divide their duties to the refugee camp, victim data, data process and people’s complaint. He added that all social affairs ministry units will synergize to support the after earthquake and tsunami rehabilitation process in central Sulawesi. He said it was the instruction of Indonesian President to Social affairs minister, Agus Gumiwang Kartasaswita in handling central Sulawesi disasters that have to be focused on refugees. (VOI/Rezha/Trans : NK/AHM)