BNPB Receives List Of Requests For Assistance Needed By Turkey-Syria Earthquake Victims

Rescue teams are trying to find victims in the rubble of the building as a result of the earthquake in Turkey. (Wikimedia Commons/Mahmut Bozarslan/VOA)

JAKARTA - The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) received a list of requests for assistance needed by earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria.

Acting Head of the BNPB Disaster Data and Information Center Abdul Muhari hoped that the Indonesian people would pay attention to the list if they wanted to provide assistance.

"We have received a list of needs, urgent devices to help affected residents in Turkey and Syria such as mattresses, warm blankets, winter clothes and shoes, food packages, hygiene kits, soap, pampers for adults, elderly, and children, medicines, medical devices, solar lights, family tents, rubble scrapers, first aid kits, and generators," Abdul said as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, February 9.

Abdul said these tools were prioritized to be collected as assistance for the citizens of the country.

"So if there are members of the public who are then called on to be able to ease the burden on our brothers and sisters who are affected in Turkey and Syria, we urge them to be able to pay attention to the need for a list of items that are urgently needed, as previously conveyed," he said.

BNPB continues to coordinate intensively with the ambassadors of the Republic of Indonesia in Turkey and Syria, so that the humanitarian support process starts from dispatching the medium urban SAR team, then the medical technition team, and logistics delivery can run effectively, efficiently, and on target.

Abdul appealed for assistance from the Indonesian people to be channeled through institutions or community organizations that are currently gathering assistance support, which will be collectively coordinated by BNPB so that it can be sent simultaneously with transportation that has been prepared institutionally, statewide, as one door.