Helping Disaster Survivors Overcome Grief
Survivors of the Sunda Strait tsunami take refuge on Thursday (12/27/2018) in a makeshift hut in the middle of a rice field at Kampung Paniis, Taman Jaya of Sumur district, Pandeglang, Banten. The residents left their coastal village in anticipation of another tsunami.
Ziah Husna, 6, was all smiles. She was laughing heartily when musician Jodhi Yudono, 55, played his ukulele and encouraged dozens of women and children who had survived the Sunda Strait tsunami to sing with him. Jodhi peppered his performance with jokes that made everybody laugh, including Ziah. He was entertaining disaster survivors on Thursday (12/27/2018) at a shelter in Sukarame village, Carita district, Pandeglang, Banten.
Pandeglang, where Jodhi played, was the region worst hit by the tsunami, which had allegedly been triggered on Saturday evening (22/12) by an undersea landslide at Mt. Anak Krakatau in the Sunda Strait. When the tsunami hit, the local people ran for their lives towards higher ground. However, even after the waves had receded, their trauma and fears remained.