- Title: INDONESIA: US AID ARRIVES IN ACEH PROVINCE
- Date: 1st January 2005
- Summary: (W4) BANDA ACEH, ACEH PROVINCE (JANUARY 1, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF U.S. SEA HAWK HELICOPTERS LANDING AT AIRPORT 0.29 2. WIDE OF THREE U.S HELICOPTERS ON TARMAC 0.31 3. VARIOUS OF AIR FORCE PERSONNEL ARRIVING 1.04 4. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) CAPTAIN LARRY BURT, COMMANDER OF CARRIER AIR WING TWO, SAYING: "Well, we ah, I'm off the Abraham Lincoln and we just pulled in off the coast here, we're probably about twelve miles out right now, and we are trying to get supplies out of Banda Aceh here at the airport and move them down to Meulaboh" 1.21 5. WIDE OF U.S. HELICOPTER LANDING 1.27 6. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) BURT, SAYING: "We're here until the mission's complete so I have no clue what, when we will be actually be leaving, talking like the end of our deployment here, we don't know. We've just got here we're here to help and we're gonna keep working until the mission's done." 1.44 (W4) JAKARTA, INDONESIA (JANUARY 1, 2005) (REUTERS) 7. VARIOUS U.S. AIR FORCE HERCULES ON TARMAC 1.49 8. WIDE OF U.S FLAG ON TAIL OF HERCULES 1.54 9. CLOSE OF US AIR FORCE SIGN AND INSIGNIA ON PLANE 1.58 10. SLV TRUCK CARRYING BOXES OF BOTTLED WATER BACKING UP TOWARDS CARGO DOOR OF PLANE 2.06 11. VARIOUS OF INDONESIAN SOLDIERS LOADING BOXES ALONG WITH U.S. AIR FORCE PERSONNEL 2.15 12. CLOSE-UP OF BADGE OF 36TH AIRLIFT SQUADRON OF US AIR FORCE 2.20 13. SLV U.S. AMBASSADOR TO INDONESIA HELPING TO LOAD SACK OF RICE ONTO PLANE 2.30 14. CLOSE OF SACKS OF RICE WITH US FLAG 2.36 15. VARIOUS U.S. AIR FORCE PERSONNEL WATCHING 2.47 16. WIDE OF ROW OF TRUCKS WITH SUPPLIES READY TO BE LOADED WITH BANNERS READING "US AID" 2.53 17. CLOSE OF U.S. AID SIGN WITH CLASPED HANDS 2.58 18. VARIOUS OF MORE OF INDONESIAN SOLDIERS HELPING TO LOAD SUPPLIES INTO PLANE 3.12 19. WIDE OF HERCULES ON TARMAC WITH SUNSET ON BACKGROUND 3.14 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: BANDA ACEH, ACEH PROVINCE, JAKARTA, INDONESIA
- Country: Indonesia
- Reuters ID: LVA5TCKPORI6Z4SEEALJSO69K1G
- Story Text: Relief efforts from the United States arrives for
Indonesia's tsunami-devastated Aceh province.
Relief efforts from the United States began arriving
in force for Indonesia's tsunami-devastated Aceh province.
Five U.S. Sea Hawk helicopters, from an aircraft
carrier sent to the region to help out, landed at Aceh's
provincial
capital Banda Aceh on Saturday (January 1, 2004) to help local
authorities with air-drops for survivors in cut-off
communities.
Two U.S. C130 military cargo planes also arrived on the
same day in capital Jakarta to load supplies before heading
to
the worst-hit province.
With more than 80,000 confirmed deaths, Indonesia was
hardest hit by the Asian tsunamis, and officials said the
figure may rise to over 100,000.
"I'm off the Abraham Lincoln and we just pulled in off
the coast here, we're probably about 12 miles out right
now, and we are trying to get supplies out of Banda Aceh
here at the airport and move them down to a Meulaboh," said
Captain Larry Burt, Commander of Carrier Air Wing Two.
"We've just got here we're here to help and we're gonna
keep working until the mission's done," Burt added.
The helicopters, some of which had been gutted to make
room for cargo and people, came from the U.S. Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group that anchored about
20km (12 miles) offshore and will help clear the aid
supply-line
bottleneck.
U.S. President George W. Bush, under pressure over the
pace and scale of American aid to Asian tsunami victims,
abruptly raised the U.S. contribution to $350 million on
Friday (December 31), 10 times the amount pledged just two
days earlier.
The White House also suggested U.S. assistance could
rise still higher after a delegation headed by Secretary of
State
Colin Powell tours devastated areas next week and reports
back to the president on the needs of an estimated 5
million tsunami survivors.
The $350 million sum far outstripped relief
contributions from any other country and increased total
aid pledges from
nearly 40 nations by about 28 percent to nearly 1.36
billion.
Before Friday's announcement, the biggest donors had
been Britain with $96 million and Sweden with $80 million.
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