Second Batch of Aid Arrives

Kompas/B Josie Susilo Hardianto

Humanitarian aid from the is unloaded from a Hercules aircraft of the Indonesian Air Force at Chittagong Airport, Bangladesh, on Thursday, (14/9). The aid will be distributed to refugees from Rakhine, Myanmar, who fled to Bangladesh.

CHITTAGONG, KOMPAS – The second batch of aid from Indonesia for victims of the Rakhine conflict in Myanmar has arrived in Chittagong, Bangladesh, on Friday (15/9) evening. The aid, which was shipped by an Indonesian Air Force C-130 Hercules plane, was in the form of foldable water tanks, sanitation equipment and blankets. The aid will be followed by more aid in the form of rice, which will be carried by a fourth plane at 07:00 p.m., after the first two planes had arrived in Chittagong the previous day.

Interviewed a day before the arrival of the aid, Indonesian Ambassador to Bangladesh Rina P Soemarno told Kompas reporter B Josie Susilo Hardianto in Chittagong that an assessment team would head to a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar to review the items needed by the refugees. In the last few days, Rina said, the Bangladeshi government and supporting institutions needed generators and large lamps in the refugee camps.