00:02
30 years of civil war in Aceh. The battle is over the rich gas and oil reserves in the country. Here the Tsunami took the lives of over 250.000 people.
00:25
700.000 people are without shelter and dependent on international aid. But despite all this, peace is nowhere in sight.
00:40, 00:54
Titel
00:56
Were in northern Sumatra on the border to Aceh province. This is where the Asian Tsunami wreacked the most havock. Everybody coming from the disaster area is searched here.
01:16
Clip: Inge
Why are you searching the cars coming from Aceh?
01:23
Policeman: We are searching people and their cars for drugs. Were mainly looking for marihuana and were looking for weapons, like machine guns. Thats why were checking everyone, because there are many terrorists here.
01:35
Question Inge
Even in this situation, you think terrorists are still active here?
01:40
Policeman: Yes, of course the GAM is still here. Thats why were carrying out a large scale search.
01:47
Question Inge: Are you afraid that the rebells will try to leave Aceh?
01:50
Policeman: Yes, of course.
01:55
Four weeks after the Tsunami we drive through the rebel territory. Despite a ceasefire declared by the Free Aceh movement or GAM, on the day the Tsunami struck, the war continues. The Indonesian Army has put up posts on the road.
During the night theres been gunfire between theses troops and the GAM.
02:16
The military guards and controlls the aid convoys coming from the provincial capital in northern Sumatra. The trucks carry food, clothes and medicine for the Tsunami victims. The only road leading into the disaster area is closed off by the soldiers.
02:39
Every civilian, male or female is suspected of sympathising with the GAM.
02:54
But young men in particular are under the close scruitiny of the military. According to official estimates the rebel army consists of just 1500 armed fighters. But because of the constant sanctions of the military, many Acehnese secretly root for the independence fighters.
03:17
The Indonesian government wants no witnesses of this war.
Foreign journalists are not at all welcome here. But still, we manage to continue our journey. We approach the eastern coast of Aceh. Victims have had to build their own makeshift refugee camps. 4.500 traumatised people live in this camp, cramped together in a small space.
One woman tells us that of her five children only one survived.
03:50
Clip Woman
First there was the earthquake, we were quite shocked and then before we knew it the water came. The wave came so fast many people had no chance to run away. I just ran for my life.
04:07
In this camp we meet no international aid organisation. Did aid even get to this region?
4.16 Clip:
I have not heard anything about international aid. So far weve been getting our food and drink from locals, from people around here.
04:27
The nurses at the local medical station do their best to prevent the outbreak of diseases. Just one doctor is here to take care of the entire camp. There is a shortage of basic supplies.
04:50
Clip: Doctor Intra Nurriyati
We urgently need outside help and we need it soon. We are already out of antibiotics like Amoxilin. Also pain relevers like Diazepan are out of stock. Worst of all we are short of medicine to treat the children. We have nothing to give them treat their dangerous coughs. Were out of a lot of things.
05:17
The refugees have heard about the huge wave of support from all over the world in the media. They ask us to help them, so that they too receive some of that aid.
05:26
Clip: Woman
I really cant understand why nothing has arrived here yet. I cant understand that we who are so desperate are not getting any help. The money must be going astray somewhere. All I know is were not being helped to make a new start.
06:00
Here on the east coast of Aceh the Tsunami also had a devastating effect. The huge wave forced its way three kilometers inland. Volunteer helpers from the surrounding areas are doing most of the tidying up work. None of the soldies have picked up a shovel. We ask them what their purpose is here?
06:23
Clip: Soldier
A lot of aid for Tsunami victims passes through here. We have to guard it.
06:29
Clip:
Mainly we protect the aid for Aceh. It is not intended for the GAM. There are a lot of people from the GAM who try to get hold of the aid shipments.
06:40
Clip: Soldier
Yes there is a lot of fighting going on. Only yesterday there was gunfire on the road coming from Idli Rayd.
06:49
30 years of war. The rebels want an independent Aceh. The Indonesian government wants to keep the province with its valuable natural resouces. They are continuing to fight the the rebels regardless of the Tsunami. Since 26th December 200 GAM rebels have been shot in 57 clashes according to the Indonesian government. Theres no sign of a ceasfire on the ground. On the contrary. Since the Tsunami the Indonesian military seems to be pursuing their fight against the rebels even more forcefully. Often its unclear whether their targets really are rebells of the GAM. These pictures are from 23rd January 2005, almost a month after the disaster.
07:36
With more than 40.000 soldiers the army by far outnumbers the rebels. Their task is also to protect the natural resources in the region. The American energy giant ExxonMobil has been extracting gas and oil in the region since 1976. The company has a turnover of 4 billion dollars thanks to Aceh alone. One billion dollars goes straight to the Indonesian government in Jakarta, the rest of the money ends up outside the country.
The people of Aceh see none of that money. One of the reasons for conflict. Yusuf Pase is a lawyer who is fighting a lawsuit against ExxonMobil in America. The accusation is that the company ordered the killing of farmers who refused to sell their land.
08:29
Clip: Yusuf Pase Lawyer
Of course ExxonMobil, is denying that they paid Indonesian soldiers to kill people. But we all know that its true. I myself opened a mass grave with 30 people. The Indonesian government is aware of the fact that ExxonMobil is not respecting human rights. But it is only doing very little to protect us.
08:47
We drive to ExxonMobil to get a reaction. While we wait, we film from the outside. Immediately soldiers turn up.
08:59 Clip
Have you been filming already?
09:07 Clip
Stop it immediately! You are not allowed to film here, its strictly forbidden. You need special permission to film.
09.14
Unfortunately nobody is available for an interview, but we are allowed to film a little from the outside.
Scientists believe that earthquakes in this region are particularly distructive because the large scale extraction of gas leaves huge cavities underground. Exxon itself has no information about this. The company wants nothing to do with the earthquake or the Tsunami. Its aeroplanes were not used for aid flights although they were stationed in the region.
09:52
In the surrounding villages people are afraid. Many get caught up in the cross fire of the GAM and the army.
10:10
Under strict security precautions we are lead to a house where we meet the most recent civilian victims of the war.
10:20
Clip: Woman
My husband was a simple farmer. I have no idea why the army took him away. He had no walky-talky and he had no rifle. But they took him anyway. One day he just disappeared from his field. I searched for him for two months and then I found out that he was in prison. A few weeks ago they just shot him. Im alone now with seven children.
10:49
Clip: Boy
They asked me if I belong to the GAM. I said: No, I dont. Then they beat me and later they came and and put me in prison.
Again they asked me if I belong to the GAM. I said no again and they beat me again. That was at the beginning of this year, they held me for 12 days and tortured me.
11:20
The story of this young boy is no exception. Its testimony to this dirty war. We drive into the mountains to meet the GAM commander of eastern Aceh. After just 5 kilometers the secret police stop us and force us to turn around.
11:40
From now on we are under constant observation. We make a phonecall to the GAM commander Kafrawi.
11:47
Clip: Inges call to Kafrawi
Hello, Im Inge Altemeier from Germany. I was given your phone number. Am I speaking to commander Kafrawi?
What is your situation?
12:03
Clip Kafrawi
We are under constant attack. This morning at eight oclock we were attacked for the first time. Then at ten and then again at three in the afternoon.
12:16
Clip: Inge
Are you beleaguered?
12:21
Clip: Kafrawi
Yes we are surrounded by Indonesian troops. Since the Tsunami the Indonesian army has launched a large offensive against us, although we declared a ceasefire.
12:45
On 17th January five men are arrested outside Aceh.
12:57
They are identified as GAM rebels by their weapons and their emblems. Only two rifles were found with them.
The rebel army is poorly equipped. The detainees are acused of having planned an attack on an international aid convoy.
13:28
The men arent allowed to speak, but their fearful expressions say enough. Physical abuse and intimidation are common police interrogation methods here.
13:50
The weapons are presented as if they were evidence, but theyre not. The accusation is based on vague assumptions.
14:05
Clip: Kamastan HDI Police Lieutenant
These men had planned to capture aid convoys which are destined for the Tsunami victims in Aceh. The trucks come from
Jakarta and pass through here. They wanted to attack them. We found out from recordings on their mobile phone mail box.
14:24
Commander Kafrawi says the GAM does not attack aid convoys. International aid organisations have not reported a single attack on one of their convoys by the GAM.
14:39
All international aid missions can only be carried out under the observation of the military. If the aid agencies try to act on their own, theyre work is obstructed.
14:59
Members of the aid organisation Doctors without borders are being held in a luxury hotel in Lhoksewame in north eastern Aceh. For fear of further sanctions they dont want to give us an interview. Even the doctors are being obstructed by the military.
15:25
The refugees are the ones who lose out. They are entirely dependent on themselves. Only in the camps where the military rules, do they get some of the aid.
15:37
The soldiers determine where the aid is distributed. Even the aid organisations are not free, they must follow the armys instructions.
15:50
The argument of the government is that the refugees must be protected against the rebels of the GAM. The operation Aid for Aceh is under military command.
16:07
This mosque is an exception. Here 100 kilometers east of the capital Banda Aceh, the Saudiarabian businessman Abdullah Akbar is heading his own aid project. The devout moslem wants to help his brothers. Hes handing out a million US dollars in local currency. Each refugee gets 100.000 Rupiah, thats 10 US dollars.
16:36
The people are desperate, theyve lost everything. These victims have become beggars.
16:53
Clip: Abdullah Akbar
We dont want to hand out food. Often the food that the aid agencies bring here is no good anymore and most people dont need such food, there is enough rice in the country. Look at the clothes they send from Europe, wool jumpers, who needs such clothes in this heat. People abroad dont know what the people here really need. Thats why we give them money, because they can decide themselves what they need. We want to see them happy.
17:45
Four weeks after the disaster 130.000 people are still missing.
People clearing up are still finding dead bodies.
18:02
At a mass grave we meet Atqia Abubakar. Hes looking for his two young daughters. Since 17th January people have to pay 10 dollars to the soldiers when they bring dead bodies to the mass grave. Thats as much as the Saudi sheik is handing out.
18:24
We accompany Atqia to the ruin of his house on the outskirts of Banda Aceh. Four days he waited for help with his wife and his only surviving child among the dead and the injured.
18:42
The pictures remind him of the time before the Tsunami and his missing children. We were doing okay in west Aceh before this disaster he says.
19:12
Clip : Atqias wife
Medical aid came, but it wasnt distributed here. Nobody came to us.
19:19
Clip: Atqia
We saw the Indonesian planes in the sky and they saw us but they didnt want to help us.
19:29
Atqia and his family had to help themselves out of the mess they were in. Now theyve their hope that the Indonesian government might help them.
19:41
Clip: Atqia
People have understood that real help has to come from abroad. Please stay here!
19:57
The capital Banda Aceh is overrun by international aid agencies. In the unaffected parts of Indonesia there is enough food available on the market. But instead of buying food from Indonesians, a lot of food aid has been imported from abroad.
20:14
The result is that the local market is falling apart. When food from abroad is distributed for free, the local economy suffers.
Indonesian rice farmers are afraid of a longterm crisis ahead, because the food from overseas is piling up in Aceh.
20:33
The workers of the UN aid agencies have built up their own tent village in Aceh. As the representative body of the international community the UN has to work with the Indonesian government, because they are here upon their official invitation.
20:44
Bettina Luescher is the spokesperson of the World Food Programme in Aceh.
21:03
Clip: Bettina Luescher World Food Programme
It is not very common for UN aid convoys to have military escorts. We dont really want that because it is important for us to be seen to be independent. But I can imagine we can come to a solution.
21:32
A difficult task in a civil war country. In most of the refugee camps there is little international aid to be seen. There is still a shortage of clean water and accommodation. People are dependent on themselves. There is not even enough water to wash dishes.
21:54
In war torn Aceh there was no Red Cross or Red Cresent nor were there any other partners of international aid agencies.
The tents of the UNHCR had to be flown in from Kopenhagen. In the whole of Banda Aceh there is only one large tent and that was only built up on 15th January.
22:20
Clip: Mars Nyle
Yes it took a while. But the thing is we had to first set up the administration here. Telecommunications and logistics had to be flown in just as our staff did. Today is the first day where we can start the work were actually here for. This is the first tent weve built up and we are going to build up another 10.000 tents like this, that is 9.999 to be precise.
22:52
UNHCR, the refugee programme of the UN has so far been flying the tents to the completely distroyed west coast of Aceh. But nobody knows how many people survived there, or whether there are still refugees in the mountains. Helicopters deliver the tents to a military camp. But it is still completely unclear who is actually going to live in these tents.
23:22
The distribution of rice is also being carried out at random.
The American soldiers continue to operate here although they dont know who really needs the food now.
War experienced soldiers on an aid mission.
23:53
Again we see no civilians receiving the aid. The Indonesian army has everything under their control.
24:10
On the flight back the helicopter lands on an American warship.
A new crew comes on board. And now we are told to turn off our camera. To our surprise weapons are being loaded onto the helicopter. American soldiers are ment to be unarmed here.
We continue filming secretly.
24:36
A possible explanation? The Tsunami has caused many casualties among the Indonesian army and some of their weapons have been lost. The next morning all of these soldiers have rifles again. Of the 50.000 men who are stationed here about 15.000 have been sent to oversee the humanitarian aid.
24:56 Clip:
General Bambang
I have to carry out the orders of general Ryacud, especially with regard to security. All my actions have to be subordinate to the security regulations. The general in charge of security has the command.
25:17
All foreign soldiers are to leave Aceh by 26th March the latest. By then 700.000 homeless people are to be relocated to seven different camps.
25:34 Clip:
General Bambang Darmonu responsible for Humanitarian Aid Operations
After the relocation programme when all the refugees are in camps then the registration wont be a problem anymore. Thats why we have to relocate people as soon as possible.
26:05
We head east again into rebel territory. The war is continuing here. The peace talks have failed. In the mean time foreign journalists are not allowed in this region anymore. Here the first large scale refugee camps are being built under the supervision of the military.
26:29
Lieutenant Helmi heads the operation. Until recently he was in charge of a military commando that was fighting the GAM. Thats still noticable. All of his soldiers are behaving like they are still at war.
26:48
Clip: Lieutenant Helmi
Every refugee who comes here is thoroughly checked. We work closely with the local government to ensure that everybody is identified. We also put up military posts around the camp. Our soldiers will guard the camp day and night and make sure that nobody enters it unauthorised.
27:20
More than a third of the population of Aceh has come under the control of the Indonesian military since the Tsunami.
27:28
Clip: Lieutenant Helmi
As far as the separation of refugees is concerned this is our plan: We will put up a barbed wire fence around the entire camp to separate the refugees from the civilian population. Thats how we are planning the future in Aceh. We have to take care of the security of people.
27:49
The Acehnese people are being fenced in, without being asked. Nobody here wants to live in a huge camp for the next years.
27:59
The people of Aceh have not overcome the trauma of the Tsunami and already they are having their last bit of self-determination taken away. They are the victims of a brutal war which knows no mercy, even after the most devastating natural disaster of our time.
30 years of civil war in Aceh. The battle is over the rich gas and oil reserves in the country. Here the Tsunami took the lives of over 250.000 people.
00:25
700.000 people are without shelter and dependent on international aid. But despite all this, peace is nowhere in sight.
00:40, 00:54
Titel
00:56
Were in northern Sumatra on the border to Aceh province. This is where the Asian Tsunami wreacked the most havock. Everybody coming from the disaster area is searched here.
01:16
Clip: Inge
Why are you searching the cars coming from Aceh?
01:23
Policeman: We are searching people and their cars for drugs. Were mainly looking for marihuana and were looking for weapons, like machine guns. Thats why were checking everyone, because there are many terrorists here.
01:35
Question Inge
Even in this situation, you think terrorists are still active here?
01:40
Policeman: Yes, of course the GAM is still here. Thats why were carrying out a large scale search.
01:47
Question Inge: Are you afraid that the rebells will try to leave Aceh?
01:50
Policeman: Yes, of course.
01:55
Four weeks after the Tsunami we drive through the rebel territory. Despite a ceasefire declared by the Free Aceh movement or GAM, on the day the Tsunami struck, the war continues. The Indonesian Army has put up posts on the road.
During the night theres been gunfire between theses troops and the GAM.
02:16
The military guards and controlls the aid convoys coming from the provincial capital in northern Sumatra. The trucks carry food, clothes and medicine for the Tsunami victims. The only road leading into the disaster area is closed off by the soldiers.
02:39
Every civilian, male or female is suspected of sympathising with the GAM.
02:54
But young men in particular are under the close scruitiny of the military. According to official estimates the rebel army consists of just 1500 armed fighters. But because of the constant sanctions of the military, many Acehnese secretly root for the independence fighters.
03:17
The Indonesian government wants no witnesses of this war.
Foreign journalists are not at all welcome here. But still, we manage to continue our journey. We approach the eastern coast of Aceh. Victims have had to build their own makeshift refugee camps. 4.500 traumatised people live in this camp, cramped together in a small space.
One woman tells us that of her five children only one survived.
03:50
Clip Woman
First there was the earthquake, we were quite shocked and then before we knew it the water came. The wave came so fast many people had no chance to run away. I just ran for my life.
04:07
In this camp we meet no international aid organisation. Did aid even get to this region?
4.16 Clip:
I have not heard anything about international aid. So far weve been getting our food and drink from locals, from people around here.
04:27
The nurses at the local medical station do their best to prevent the outbreak of diseases. Just one doctor is here to take care of the entire camp. There is a shortage of basic supplies.
04:50
Clip: Doctor Intra Nurriyati
We urgently need outside help and we need it soon. We are already out of antibiotics like Amoxilin. Also pain relevers like Diazepan are out of stock. Worst of all we are short of medicine to treat the children. We have nothing to give them treat their dangerous coughs. Were out of a lot of things.
05:17
The refugees have heard about the huge wave of support from all over the world in the media. They ask us to help them, so that they too receive some of that aid.
05:26
Clip: Woman
I really cant understand why nothing has arrived here yet. I cant understand that we who are so desperate are not getting any help. The money must be going astray somewhere. All I know is were not being helped to make a new start.
06:00
Here on the east coast of Aceh the Tsunami also had a devastating effect. The huge wave forced its way three kilometers inland. Volunteer helpers from the surrounding areas are doing most of the tidying up work. None of the soldies have picked up a shovel. We ask them what their purpose is here?
06:23
Clip: Soldier
A lot of aid for Tsunami victims passes through here. We have to guard it.
06:29
Clip:
Mainly we protect the aid for Aceh. It is not intended for the GAM. There are a lot of people from the GAM who try to get hold of the aid shipments.
06:40
Clip: Soldier
Yes there is a lot of fighting going on. Only yesterday there was gunfire on the road coming from Idli Rayd.
06:49
30 years of war. The rebels want an independent Aceh. The Indonesian government wants to keep the province with its valuable natural resouces. They are continuing to fight the the rebels regardless of the Tsunami. Since 26th December 200 GAM rebels have been shot in 57 clashes according to the Indonesian government. Theres no sign of a ceasfire on the ground. On the contrary. Since the Tsunami the Indonesian military seems to be pursuing their fight against the rebels even more forcefully. Often its unclear whether their targets really are rebells of the GAM. These pictures are from 23rd January 2005, almost a month after the disaster.
07:36
With more than 40.000 soldiers the army by far outnumbers the rebels. Their task is also to protect the natural resources in the region. The American energy giant ExxonMobil has been extracting gas and oil in the region since 1976. The company has a turnover of 4 billion dollars thanks to Aceh alone. One billion dollars goes straight to the Indonesian government in Jakarta, the rest of the money ends up outside the country.
The people of Aceh see none of that money. One of the reasons for conflict. Yusuf Pase is a lawyer who is fighting a lawsuit against ExxonMobil in America. The accusation is that the company ordered the killing of farmers who refused to sell their land.
08:29
Clip: Yusuf Pase Lawyer
Of course ExxonMobil, is denying that they paid Indonesian soldiers to kill people. But we all know that its true. I myself opened a mass grave with 30 people. The Indonesian government is aware of the fact that ExxonMobil is not respecting human rights. But it is only doing very little to protect us.
08:47
We drive to ExxonMobil to get a reaction. While we wait, we film from the outside. Immediately soldiers turn up.
08:59 Clip
Have you been filming already?
09:07 Clip
Stop it immediately! You are not allowed to film here, its strictly forbidden. You need special permission to film.
09.14
Unfortunately nobody is available for an interview, but we are allowed to film a little from the outside.
Scientists believe that earthquakes in this region are particularly distructive because the large scale extraction of gas leaves huge cavities underground. Exxon itself has no information about this. The company wants nothing to do with the earthquake or the Tsunami. Its aeroplanes were not used for aid flights although they were stationed in the region.
09:52
In the surrounding villages people are afraid. Many get caught up in the cross fire of the GAM and the army.
10:10
Under strict security precautions we are lead to a house where we meet the most recent civilian victims of the war.
10:20
Clip: Woman
My husband was a simple farmer. I have no idea why the army took him away. He had no walky-talky and he had no rifle. But they took him anyway. One day he just disappeared from his field. I searched for him for two months and then I found out that he was in prison. A few weeks ago they just shot him. Im alone now with seven children.
10:49
Clip: Boy
They asked me if I belong to the GAM. I said: No, I dont. Then they beat me and later they came and and put me in prison.
Again they asked me if I belong to the GAM. I said no again and they beat me again. That was at the beginning of this year, they held me for 12 days and tortured me.
11:20
The story of this young boy is no exception. Its testimony to this dirty war. We drive into the mountains to meet the GAM commander of eastern Aceh. After just 5 kilometers the secret police stop us and force us to turn around.
11:40
From now on we are under constant observation. We make a phonecall to the GAM commander Kafrawi.
11:47
Clip: Inges call to Kafrawi
Hello, Im Inge Altemeier from Germany. I was given your phone number. Am I speaking to commander Kafrawi?
What is your situation?
12:03
Clip Kafrawi
We are under constant attack. This morning at eight oclock we were attacked for the first time. Then at ten and then again at three in the afternoon.
12:16
Clip: Inge
Are you beleaguered?
12:21
Clip: Kafrawi
Yes we are surrounded by Indonesian troops. Since the Tsunami the Indonesian army has launched a large offensive against us, although we declared a ceasefire.
12:45
On 17th January five men are arrested outside Aceh.
12:57
They are identified as GAM rebels by their weapons and their emblems. Only two rifles were found with them.
The rebel army is poorly equipped. The detainees are acused of having planned an attack on an international aid convoy.
13:28
The men arent allowed to speak, but their fearful expressions say enough. Physical abuse and intimidation are common police interrogation methods here.
13:50
The weapons are presented as if they were evidence, but theyre not. The accusation is based on vague assumptions.
14:05
Clip: Kamastan HDI Police Lieutenant
These men had planned to capture aid convoys which are destined for the Tsunami victims in Aceh. The trucks come from
Jakarta and pass through here. They wanted to attack them. We found out from recordings on their mobile phone mail box.
14:24
Commander Kafrawi says the GAM does not attack aid convoys. International aid organisations have not reported a single attack on one of their convoys by the GAM.
14:39
All international aid missions can only be carried out under the observation of the military. If the aid agencies try to act on their own, theyre work is obstructed.
14:59
Members of the aid organisation Doctors without borders are being held in a luxury hotel in Lhoksewame in north eastern Aceh. For fear of further sanctions they dont want to give us an interview. Even the doctors are being obstructed by the military.
15:25
The refugees are the ones who lose out. They are entirely dependent on themselves. Only in the camps where the military rules, do they get some of the aid.
15:37
The soldiers determine where the aid is distributed. Even the aid organisations are not free, they must follow the armys instructions.
15:50
The argument of the government is that the refugees must be protected against the rebels of the GAM. The operation Aid for Aceh is under military command.
16:07
This mosque is an exception. Here 100 kilometers east of the capital Banda Aceh, the Saudiarabian businessman Abdullah Akbar is heading his own aid project. The devout moslem wants to help his brothers. Hes handing out a million US dollars in local currency. Each refugee gets 100.000 Rupiah, thats 10 US dollars.
16:36
The people are desperate, theyve lost everything. These victims have become beggars.
16:53
Clip: Abdullah Akbar
We dont want to hand out food. Often the food that the aid agencies bring here is no good anymore and most people dont need such food, there is enough rice in the country. Look at the clothes they send from Europe, wool jumpers, who needs such clothes in this heat. People abroad dont know what the people here really need. Thats why we give them money, because they can decide themselves what they need. We want to see them happy.
17:45
Four weeks after the disaster 130.000 people are still missing.
People clearing up are still finding dead bodies.
18:02
At a mass grave we meet Atqia Abubakar. Hes looking for his two young daughters. Since 17th January people have to pay 10 dollars to the soldiers when they bring dead bodies to the mass grave. Thats as much as the Saudi sheik is handing out.
18:24
We accompany Atqia to the ruin of his house on the outskirts of Banda Aceh. Four days he waited for help with his wife and his only surviving child among the dead and the injured.
18:42
The pictures remind him of the time before the Tsunami and his missing children. We were doing okay in west Aceh before this disaster he says.
19:12
Clip : Atqias wife
Medical aid came, but it wasnt distributed here. Nobody came to us.
19:19
Clip: Atqia
We saw the Indonesian planes in the sky and they saw us but they didnt want to help us.
19:29
Atqia and his family had to help themselves out of the mess they were in. Now theyve their hope that the Indonesian government might help them.
19:41
Clip: Atqia
People have understood that real help has to come from abroad. Please stay here!
19:57
The capital Banda Aceh is overrun by international aid agencies. In the unaffected parts of Indonesia there is enough food available on the market. But instead of buying food from Indonesians, a lot of food aid has been imported from abroad.
20:14
The result is that the local market is falling apart. When food from abroad is distributed for free, the local economy suffers.
Indonesian rice farmers are afraid of a longterm crisis ahead, because the food from overseas is piling up in Aceh.
20:33
The workers of the UN aid agencies have built up their own tent village in Aceh. As the representative body of the international community the UN has to work with the Indonesian government, because they are here upon their official invitation.
20:44
Bettina Luescher is the spokesperson of the World Food Programme in Aceh.
21:03
Clip: Bettina Luescher World Food Programme
It is not very common for UN aid convoys to have military escorts. We dont really want that because it is important for us to be seen to be independent. But I can imagine we can come to a solution.
21:32
A difficult task in a civil war country. In most of the refugee camps there is little international aid to be seen. There is still a shortage of clean water and accommodation. People are dependent on themselves. There is not even enough water to wash dishes.
21:54
In war torn Aceh there was no Red Cross or Red Cresent nor were there any other partners of international aid agencies.
The tents of the UNHCR had to be flown in from Kopenhagen. In the whole of Banda Aceh there is only one large tent and that was only built up on 15th January.
22:20
Clip: Mars Nyle
Yes it took a while. But the thing is we had to first set up the administration here. Telecommunications and logistics had to be flown in just as our staff did. Today is the first day where we can start the work were actually here for. This is the first tent weve built up and we are going to build up another 10.000 tents like this, that is 9.999 to be precise.
22:52
UNHCR, the refugee programme of the UN has so far been flying the tents to the completely distroyed west coast of Aceh. But nobody knows how many people survived there, or whether there are still refugees in the mountains. Helicopters deliver the tents to a military camp. But it is still completely unclear who is actually going to live in these tents.
23:22
The distribution of rice is also being carried out at random.
The American soldiers continue to operate here although they dont know who really needs the food now.
War experienced soldiers on an aid mission.
23:53
Again we see no civilians receiving the aid. The Indonesian army has everything under their control.
24:10
On the flight back the helicopter lands on an American warship.
A new crew comes on board. And now we are told to turn off our camera. To our surprise weapons are being loaded onto the helicopter. American soldiers are ment to be unarmed here.
We continue filming secretly.
24:36
A possible explanation? The Tsunami has caused many casualties among the Indonesian army and some of their weapons have been lost. The next morning all of these soldiers have rifles again. Of the 50.000 men who are stationed here about 15.000 have been sent to oversee the humanitarian aid.
24:56 Clip:
General Bambang
I have to carry out the orders of general Ryacud, especially with regard to security. All my actions have to be subordinate to the security regulations. The general in charge of security has the command.
25:17
All foreign soldiers are to leave Aceh by 26th March the latest. By then 700.000 homeless people are to be relocated to seven different camps.
25:34 Clip:
General Bambang Darmonu responsible for Humanitarian Aid Operations
After the relocation programme when all the refugees are in camps then the registration wont be a problem anymore. Thats why we have to relocate people as soon as possible.
26:05
We head east again into rebel territory. The war is continuing here. The peace talks have failed. In the mean time foreign journalists are not allowed in this region anymore. Here the first large scale refugee camps are being built under the supervision of the military.
26:29
Lieutenant Helmi heads the operation. Until recently he was in charge of a military commando that was fighting the GAM. Thats still noticable. All of his soldiers are behaving like they are still at war.
26:48
Clip: Lieutenant Helmi
Every refugee who comes here is thoroughly checked. We work closely with the local government to ensure that everybody is identified. We also put up military posts around the camp. Our soldiers will guard the camp day and night and make sure that nobody enters it unauthorised.
27:20
More than a third of the population of Aceh has come under the control of the Indonesian military since the Tsunami.
27:28
Clip: Lieutenant Helmi
As far as the separation of refugees is concerned this is our plan: We will put up a barbed wire fence around the entire camp to separate the refugees from the civilian population. Thats how we are planning the future in Aceh. We have to take care of the security of people.
27:49
The Acehnese people are being fenced in, without being asked. Nobody here wants to live in a huge camp for the next years.
27:59
The people of Aceh have not overcome the trauma of the Tsunami and already they are having their last bit of self-determination taken away. They are the victims of a brutal war which knows no mercy, even after the most devastating natural disaster of our time.