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  USPACOM Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
TEUNOM, Indonesia -- It was as if the US Navy helicopter were a miracle, a dream come true.
Trees lay pasted flat to the ground and the water was sandy, as if it had eaten part of the shoreline.
The coastal town of Teunom looked from the air like a broken piece of white crockery-the ruins of the town's buildings.
www.pacom.mil /articles/articles2005/050102story2.shtml   (441 words)

  
 Aceh Tsunami Update: West Coastal Area of Aceh is now open from Isolation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Teunom is open now, Thousands remains of corpses in Calang were just started to be taken care.
TEUNOM, PENA INDONESIA, 6 January 2005, 10:00 Western Indonesia Time Zone (WIB) - A helicopter landed down in Teunom, Aceh Jaya, this morning, unloading four volunteers, one of them carried out radio communications equipment.
Teunom is a region which still relatively isolated in the west coastal area of Aceh that mostly hit by the tsunami.
acehupdate.degromiest.nl /archives/001265.php   (767 words)

  
 Australian Red Cross
But the clinic in Teunom, which sees some 200 patients a day, is only equipped to deal with basic health issues and emergencies such as minor operations.
So the Red Cross arranged for a medical evacuation from Teunom to a field hospital in Banda Aceh, run under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The next morning, a Red Cross helicopter flew Yusfarida, his wife and daughter, as well as another patient with a less serious case of tetanus, to the hospital in Banda Aceh to receive specialist treatment from doctors and nurses.
www.redcross.org.au /ourservices_aroundtheworld_emergencyrelief_AsiaQuakeTsunamis_fieldstory8.htm   (714 words)

  
 The Greenpeace weblog: January 2005 Archives
Because Teunom is around 15 hours from here, by the time we finish and get off the wharf we'll not get there in time to do much tomorrow, we'll probably anchor here tonight and leave tomorrow morning.
There are other boats close to Teunom which may be more appropriate for this and this needs more work on the ground tomorrow as well.
Teunom has a large amount of IDPs encamped closeby, and is completely cut off.
weblog.greenpeace.org /archives/2005_01.html   (21016 words)

  
 Red Cross Red Crescent - News
Before the tsunami, Teunom had a population of 23,000.
Married with two young daughters, and living in Teunom for five years, she lost her home to the tsunami.
But despite her heartache, she refuses to leave Teunom, the town she has called home for more than five years, aboard one of the many helicopters bringing patients as well as supplies to the clinic.
www.ifrc.org /docs/news/05/05011801/index.asp   (1383 words)

  
 First Tsunami Survivor Found in Three Days - General - RedOrbit
The operation was part of a $2 billion global relief effort announced as international donors began assembling for a conference on rebuilding in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on Thursday.
Officials said 8,000 of Keude Teunom's 18,000 residents were killed in the disaster.
Associated Press Writers Denis D. Gray in Kuede Teunom, Indonesia; Miranda Leitsinger in Phuket, Thailand; Richard Vogel in Bang Nieng, Thailand, and Neelesh Misra in Car Nicobar, India, contributed to this report.
www.redorbit.com /news/general/115765/first_tsunami_survivor_found_in_three_days/index.html   (1108 words)

  
 Elit Baleno: ZoomInfo Business People Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Along with her father, Bahari, and mother, Kasum, Elit stayed at the SP III transmigration complex in Teunom district, Aceh Jaya.
The soldiers were convinced that Elit was actually Salbiah alias Cut Nyak Sah, second-in-command of Inong Balee 4th District in Teunom, whereas her KTP quite clearly contained the name Elit Baleno, resident of Banda Aceh.
She told Tempo that the authorities had forced her to sign a record of an interview that she was never allowed to read.
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Baleno_Elit_724635350.htm   (1107 words)

  
 Aceh, Indonesia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The tsunami ravaged town of Keude Teunom in Aceh, Indonesia on Friday Jan. 7, 2005.
Residents of Keude Teunom approach an American Seahawk HH 60 H helecopter during relief efforts.
Residents of Keude Teunom grab rice from an American Navy helecopter during relief efforts.
mysite.verizon.net /vze8jg4w/id10.html   (257 words)

  
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The operation was part of a $2 billion global relief effort announced as international donors began assembling for a conference on rebuilding in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on Thursday.
As the relief efforts drove deeper into the sprawling disaster zone, American pilots had some of the first glimpses of wrecked Sumatran coastal villages such as Kuede Teunom, where survivors in tattered clothing grabbed at bottles of water dropped from helicopters.
Officials said 8,000 of Keude Teunom's 18,000 residents were killed in the disaster.
www.nctimes.com /articles/2006/04/19/tsunami/10_21_191_2_05.prt   (1144 words)

  
 ReliefWeb » Professional Resources » Vacancies
Please note that Teunom is an unaccompanied location, however, provision can be made for family members to live in Medan or Jakarta.
The purpose of this role is to coordinate and manage the implementation of the enabling works in Teunom, and to coordinate and manage the main works in Teunom, currently a total of over 2000 houses for construction have been identified.
The CPMT will be oversee a number of staff from a technical and non technical background, and will report to the Construction Manager.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/res.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-6KWGGV?OpenDocument   (652 words)

  
 January 18, 2005: Exploring Teunom | Greenpeace USA
Teunom has a large amount of IDPs encamped close by, but is completely cut off.
Teunom is flat and there are no major hills close by.
We are changing crew soon and will have a little time to reassess where to go from here.
www.greenpeace.org /usa/news/rainbow-warrior-brings-aid-to/january-18-2005-exploring-te   (301 words)

  
 hampir tembus (Indonesian to English translation glossary) General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters,
jalan Meulaboh - Calang hampir tembus ke Teunom.
In this context "jalan Meulaboh - Calang hampir tembus ke Teunom" means that the road from Meulaboh to Calang nearly reached Teunom.
I presume Meulaboh/Calang & Teunom are the names of cities/villages and that Teunom lies between Meulaboh & Calang....
www.proz.com /kudoz/945710   (220 words)

  
 Akses Jalan Terputus, Harga BBM di Teunom Melambung - Jumat, 11 Februari 2005
Seperti diakui Tengku Syarifuddin (50), pengemudi ojek di Teunom, harga bensin di Teunom sebenarnya sudah relatif turun, tetapi masih jauh di atas harga normal.
Menurut Nasrul, Teunom hingga kini relatif masih terisolasi.
Selain melambungnya harga BBM, ancaman penyakit malaria dan diare kini mengancam 18.000 warga Kecamatan Teunom, yang kini hampir separuhnya menjadi pengungsi.
www.kompas.com /kompas-cetak/0502/11/Geliat/1551306.htm   (310 words)

  
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Their families, and local community leaders from Teunom who went to Kodim West Aceh, were not allowed to see them, and the military authorities refused to explain why they were being held.
Amnesty International is concerned by claims from human rights monitors that the 20 men were interrogated without lawyers present, and that they were tortured and ill-treated to force them to admit to involvement with GAM.
On 19 July, while the 20 workers were still in military custody, Teunom community leaders met with PT TMP to discuss the community’s demands.
www2.amnesty.se /uaonnet.nsf/dfab8d7f58eec102c1257011006466e1/7ba05c796b7b98c3c12567bd00400236?OpenDocument   (498 words)

  
 WALHI - Info Relawan 15 : Relawan di Kecamatan Teunom, Aceh Jaya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Relawan diangkut dengan Helikopter dari Meulaboh ke Teunom selama 25 menit.
Para pengungsi berasal dari pesisir Pantai Teunom, Koh Teunom dll.
Di Teunom, Palang Merah Jerman telah mendirikan fasilitas Rumah Sakit Darurat, yang lengkap, hingga laboratorium dan ruang operasi.
www.walhi.or.id /tsunami/050113_info15_teunom   (717 words)

  
 UNHCR | Tsunami Emergency
A team from UNHCR and UNDP on Thursday visited the town of Teunom (pronounced teeh-nomh) on the west coast, some 60km to the north of Meulaboh, where thousands of displaced people continue to survive a month after the tsunami disaster mainly on a diet of bananas, coconut and palm fruit, locally called sagu.
Aid workers, using figures from local authorities, say Teunom's population was originally 17,000.
Few buildings stand in Teunom, one of the hard-hit towns along the west coast of Aceh province that have been inaccessible to organized relief efforts.
www.unhcr.org /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/tsunami?page=briefing&id=41fa2f754   (863 words)

  
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In the second phase access from Meulaboh to Teunom will be restored; this phase is expected to take more time because the repairs require heavy equipment and the replacement of several bridges.
Teunom port: access possible only for small boats because of debris in the river mouth.
In Teunom, some 60km north of Meulaboh, some 8,000 people have been displaced, 80 percent of them living with host families and the rest in damaged mosques, public buildings and tents.
www.unep.org /tsunami/reports/GetBin.doc   (4340 words)

  
 Baylor Magazine || Network News
His colleague at the clinic, McCall, BA '72, who has special training in orthopedics, was prepared to do whatever it took to meet the needs of people he encountered, some without shelter or sustenance and a few only barely staying alive.
The two doctors and 11 people on their medical relief team from Antioch Community Church in Waco spent five days traveling to reach their destination - Teunom, a coastal city in the province of Aceh.
They spent three days in Teunom in a makeshift camp established five yards from where the giant wave stopped.
www.baylormag.com /dept.php?id=000492   (552 words)

  
 Normal Days in Aceh, Indonesia
As I write this letter to you tonight it is dinner time on Wednesday, June 8, 2005.
We have been living for the past two weeks in this remote area of Aceh province, and we are eager to send you news when we return to the provincial capital of Banda Aceh tomorrow.
There is no ‘normal’ to our days here in Teunom, but rather, we take each day as it comes, with many comings and goings of neighbors and workers and village kids and English students.
www.cmfi.org /normaldays.html   (533 words)

  
 The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
Floods have spread in Teunom district, Aceh Jaya regency, since Monday following heavy rain in the district, located some 180 kilometers west of Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh.
Due to the flooding, hundreds of houses in Teunom district were inundated by water, forcing thousands of local residents to take refuge elsewhere.
At least 24 subdistricts in Teunom district were affected by the flooding, which occurred at the end of the dry season this year.
www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20040929.D04   (372 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 217   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The coastal town of Teunom looked from the air like a broken piece of white crockery -- the ruins of the town's buildings.
About 40 villagers were waiting at the edge of a patch of dirt where the Squadron 47 Sea Hawks' pilots, Matt Chester, 27, and Ken Deppisch, 26, touched down.
Refugees from a devastated village swarm a US Navy Sea Hawk helicopter as it drops water and other supplies near the ground in Teunom, 170 kms southwest of Banda Aceh, on Indonesia's Sumatra island yesterday.
www.thedailystar.net /2005/01/03/d501031302101.htm   (384 words)

  
 Aceh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The western coastal areas of Aceh, including the cities of Banda Aceh and Meulaboh, have been devastated by the tsunami resulting from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on December 26 2004.
The towns of Calang and Teunom, with populations of about 12,000 each, are reported to have "vanished completely leaving only scattered shards of concrete" http://www.leuserfoundation.org/.
Because of the separatist movement in the area, the Indonesian government has had access restrictions in place on the press and aid workers.
www.keywordmage.net /ac/aceh.html   (1581 words)

  
 ANTARA News :: Hundreds of home in Aceh Jaya district flooded
Floods have been hitting the villages since Tuesday evening due to heavy rains which continue to fall, according to Aceh Jaya legislator Bustami AR.
In the past one month, floods had three times hit the villages of Keudee Teunom, Alue Ambong, Panton, Padang Kleng, Pasi Tulak Bala, Gampong Baro, Teupin Ara, Paya Baro, Cot Trap, Lueng Gayo, Rambung Payong, Tanon Anou, Batee Ara, Seunebok Padang and Blang Baro.
Teunom has been very prone to floods since its Krueng dam in Teunom River was destroyed by tsunami on December 26, 2004, he said.
www.antara.co.id /en/arc/2006/4/26/hundreds_of_home_in_aceh_jaya_district_flooded   (396 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin News /2005/01/03/
But the needs of disaster victims remain enormous, and relief efforts have been hampered by the destruction of roads, ports and airfields.
In coastal villages such as Kuede Teunom in Indonesia, survivors in mud-caked and tattered clothing grabbed at bottles of water dropped from the air.
As the relief effort continued to build, affected nations were also working to ensure that nothing on the scale of last week's disaster would happen again.
starbulletin.com /2005/01/03/news/story3.html   (1140 words)

  
 Aide Médicale Internationale - AMI in Indonesia
Support the health system in the district of Teunom [province of Aceh, island of Sumatra] to treat populations affected by the Tsunami.
In order to help populations who suffered from the tsunami, in January 2005 AMI sent a team to the province of Aceh [north-western part of the island], a region strongly hit with more than 131,000 people killed and 800,000 disaster victims or displaced people.
AMI chose to help strengthen the restoration of the national health system, while answering accasionally the lack of service by treating people directly in mobile clinics.
www.amifrance.org /AMI-in-Indonesia.html   (574 words)

  
 e-aceh-nias.org
Teunom Open Day was attended by Aceh Jaya Regent, Ir.
Basri advised the beneficiaries in Teunom to fully participate and endorse the British Red Cross housing program in Teunom.
He also hopedthat British Red Cross Society can speed up the pace of construction in Teunom because, the communities are in desperate need of permanent houses.
www.e-aceh-nias.org /news/news.aspx?id=25&language=EN   (239 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
The mission was to find the town of Keude Teunom, if there was any of it left and deliver food to the survivors if there were any.
Keude Teunom population just under 10,000 was 110 kilometers, 70 miles south down the coast.
We neared Keude Teunom and then suddenly we saw them a small number of survivors.
transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0501/01/se.03.html   (6396 words)

  
 Tsunami - Indonesia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Teunom and Calang: Very little is left of Teunom, an isolated fishing town in the Aceh Barat (west Aceh) district.
Of 18000, it is estimated that 8000 have perished.
Calang, the capital of the Aceh Jaya district and home to 12,000 people has, like Teunom, been almost entirely washed away by the tsunami.
academic.evergreen.edu /g/grossmaz/RYKISSJR   (3826 words)

  
 CWS Indonesia | Tsunami Emergency Response
On Friday last week (22/07), CWS in Meulaboh sent an expeditionary team to Teunom, Aceh Jaya to conduct a series of NFI distributions during a two week period.
The team finally arrived in Teunom on Tuesday (26/7), and the delay was reportedly due to very bad road conditions where approximately 1.5 meters of water had covered the roads at some places.
The team keeps regular radio correspondence however with our office in Meulaboh through receivers that have been installed in two of the vehicles.
www.cwsindonesia.or.id /asiaquake/othrsc.php?nws_ident=20&nws_group=1&cws_langu=1   (155 words)

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