Sejumlah proyek IHSAN telah berjalan di Yogyakarta mulai dari bantuan kesehatan, bantuan perbaikan rumah, bantuan bagi para pedagang kecil dan juga kerja sama dengan usaha kecil.

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Rescue workers are searching for survivors of a tsunami that struck Java, killing at least 341 people.

Nearly 230 people are missing and many thousands of others have been displaced, Indonesian officials said.

The tsunami was triggered by a 7.7 magnitude undersea earthquake that struck off the resort of Pangandaran on Monday, causing a 2m-high wave.

Indonesian police and troops are helping search for the missing. The death toll is expected to rise.

Doctors in the worst-affected region near Pangandaran have called for more medical supplies to be sent to help treat the hundreds of injured.

Meanwhile, questions are being asked about what warning was given to local communities before the tsunami struck.

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An earthquake sent a 6-foot-high tsunami crashing into beach resorts on Java island Monday, killing at least 86 people, leaving scores missing and sending thousands fleeing to higher ground, officials, witnesses and media reports said.

Regional bulletins that the 7.7-magnitude undersea earthquake was strong enough to send a killer wave steaming toward the country worst hit by the 2004 Asian tsunami did not reach the victims, because Indonesia’s main island has no warning system.

Thousands fled to higher ground along a 110-mile stretch of the densely populated island’s southern coast. The hardest-hit area appeared to be Pangandaran, an idyllic beach resort popular with tourists. Witnesses there said people shouted “

Tsunami! Tsunami!” and climbed trees or crowded into inland mosques as the wave approached.

A tourist rides on a traditional tricycle a "Becak" in Bantul, Yogyakarta province of Central Java. Tens of thousands of Indonesians are likely to be left impoverished by a quake that rocked central Java last month and more than 100,000 may lose their jobs, a government report says.

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A woman, seen here in 13 June 2006 siting in front of a mosque that was semi-collapsed during the earthquake in Bantul, Yogyakarta province of Central Java. About 300,000 Indonesian survivors joined the ranks of the poor after a deadly earthquake in the center of densely populated Java island last month, an Asian Development Bank.(ADB) study said.

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Sri Wahyuni, The Jakarta Post, Yogyakarta

Medical workers in the earthquake-devastated province of Yogyakarta are used to dealing with broken legs and spines — and mental disease.

Mental disorders have been found among the victims of the earthquake and foreign volunteers involved in the relief mission in areas hardest hit by the disaster.

Two weeks after the quake rocked the royal city and its surrounding areas, dozens of survivors have been admitted to hospitals for psychiatric treatment.

Rochana Dwi Astuti, head of the Medical Service Unit at Grhasia state mental hospital in Pakem district, 20 kilometers north of Yogyakarta, told The Jakarta Post on Sunday the hospital had admitted 79 people who had become mentally ill after the quake, 58 of them requiring intensive treatment.

"Given the plight the disaster has inflicted on the people, I believe the number will increase in the coming days," Rochana said.

A surge in the number of patients has also been seen in other mental health units, including at Puri Nirmala mental hospital and the Psychiatric Unit at Dr. Sardjito General Hospital in Yogyakarta.

Puri Nirmala has been treating six patients with mental disorders and examined others who have displayed symptoms of mental illness.

At Dr. Sardjito Hospital's psychiatric unit, 15 people who were wounded in the earthquake require further treatment due to mental disorders, while 53 others need counseling.

"We are also treating 38 other patients who are suffering from light to acute stress and therefore need the right, careful care. Otherwise, their mental condition may worsen," psychiatrist Bambang Hastha Yoga of Dr. Sardjito Hospital's psychiatric unit said.

Speaking at a joint press conference held over the weekend, Yoga added those being hospitalized at the hospital's mental illness wards were mostly at risk of physically harming themselves or other people.

The psychiatrist said the hospital was also treating a foreign volunteer who had been working in the affected areas as a general physician. Identified only as a man aged 42 years old, the man was admitted to the hospital because of a serious psychological disorder.

"He claims to be a prophet, preaching to volunteers from other countries. He is very suspicious of others and eager to attack others. That's why he was sent here," Yoga said.

Those who require psychiatric counseling are mostly suffering from acute stress, insomnia and anxiety resulting from the traumatic experience of the 5.9-magnitude quake, according to Yoga.

To help quake survivors recognize early the symptoms of mental illness among themselves or their family members, including children, Dr. Sardjito Hospital has distributed some 2,000 copies of a brochure on the issue. The brochure also contains guidelines on what they should do if they find the symptoms in themselves or other family members.

"The dissemination of the information is expected to help reduce the negative impact of the quake on the mental health of the survivors," Yoga said.

The hospital has also sent a mobile team of physicians and psychiatrists to perform a "rapid assessment" of local mental health.

"We are yet to be able to tell you the result because the program is still in progress," said Yoga, adding the assessment was being held in all affected areas in the five regencies and municipalities across the province.

An Indonesian man takes a nap in a temporary shelter built on the ruins of his home in the earthquake-stricken village of Sampangan, Bantul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, June 10, 2006. Many earthquake survivors are suffering emotional problems after losing loved ones and homes in May 27's earthquake that killed more than 5,700 people and leaving half a million people homeless. Source: Yahoo News/AP

Hundreds of poor farmers concerned about their crops and livestock returned to the slopes of Indonesia's ash-spewing Mount Merapi on Friday, a day after fleeing the biggest eruption yet.

A monitoring station counted dozens of lava bursts and nine small emissions of gas from Indonesia's most dangerous volcano, the official Antara news agency reported. A thin layer of gray ash covered crops and village rooftops.

But there was nothing Friday comparable to Thursday's burst, which sent billowing gray clouds of hot ash 3 1/2 miles down the slope, and farmers said they felt at greater risk of losing their livelihood than their lives.

"The volcano appears to be calming down. I think the real danger has passed," Haryono, a rice and fruit farmer, said as he trudged to his village. "I have to get back to my fields and watch over my house."

On Saturday, the mountain spewed out more lava and hot clouds of gas at least five times. Scientists repeated that they didn't know for sure if a major eruption was immenent.

Indonesia's most dangerous mountain has been venting steam and debris for more than a month. Merapi's lava dome has swelled, raising concerns it could collapse suddenly and send deadly, scalding clouds of fast-moving gas, rocks and debris into populated areas.

More than 20,000 people packed their belongings last month and headed to camps set up in schools, mosques and government offices after authorities urged residents living near the 9,700-foot peak to evacuate. Thousands who refused to heed earlier orders fled Thursday, some jumping into rivers to escape the searing heat and others sprinting down the mountain or speeding off in cars and trucks.

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Officials evacuated 11,000 villagers from around Mount Merapi volcano as it shot out lava and superheated clouds of gas, authorities said Tuesday.

The mountain's lava dome has swelled in recent weeks, raising fears that it could suddenly collapse and send scalding clouds of fast-moving gas and debris into populated areas.

The government of nearby Magelang district mobilized more than 40 trucks and cars to evacuate about 11,000 villagers from three subdistricts near the foot of the mountain, said Edy Susanto, a district official.

He said the villagers were taken to temporary shelters, including school buildings.

"Of course it is dangerous. But we don't know for sure whether the lava dome will collapse," said Subandriyo, a government vulcanologist who uses only one name.

Aid is now flowing to tens of thousands of survivors of Indonesia's earthquake but shelter remains a critical problem, the

United Nations said on Monday, as Jakarta revised down the disaster death toll.

The Indonesian government said it would start handing out compensation to the victims to buy clothes and reconstruct their houses, more than a week after the quake killed 5,782 people and left tens of thousands homeless.

An official at the Social Affairs Department said the death toll from the magnitude 6.3 quake — which struck the Java island at dawn on May 27 — had been revised down from the earlier 6,234 after officials reviewed the numbers.

U.N. local coordinator Charlie Higgins said the aid operation was now in full swing after being constrained by the topography of Yogyakarta and Central Java, where hundreds of villages are squeezed between rice fields and congested urban centers.

"We have overcome most of the logistical bottlenecks that prevented the flow of assistance," he said.

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