UNIVERSITI KUALA LUMPUR

BUSINESS SCHOOL

SEPTEMBER SEMESTER 2018

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EEB30603
ECONOMICS REPORTING
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TITLE:
INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT 1

PREPARED BY:
AMY EZREEN BINTI SAZALEE (62215317060)

CLASS CODE:
IB20

PREPARED FOR:
PROF. DR. KAMISAN BIN GADAR

SUBMISSION DATE:
22ND OCTOBER 2018
 Indonesia Tsunami Toll Climbs
Above 800. ‘It Is Very Bad.’
By Hannah Beech and Muktita Suhartono
 Sept. 30, 2018

BANGKOK — Soaring over eastern Indonesia on Friday, Petra Mandagi exulted at the
perfect conditions for a paragliding addict: azure skies, a sweet breeze and a picture
postcard bay rippling below.

Even when a series of earthquakes began shaking the city of Palu on Friday afternoon
after his paragliding competition had finished, Mr. Mandagi texted his wife in their
hometown, Manado, and assured her that all was fine.

Less than an hour later, twin natural disasters — a 7.5 magnitude earthquake and a
tsunami that unleashed an 18-foot wave — turned parts of Palu and the surrounding
strip of coastline into a graveyard. As of Sunday evening, national disaster mitigation
officials said that at least 832 people had been confirmed killed.

The death toll, which had more than doubled from Sunday morning, was expected to
climb much higher still, with heavily populated areas outside the city still cut off from
any assistance, and desperate search-and-rescue efforts continuing in the rubble of
Palu, often with only rudimentary tools.

Bodies covered in tarps lined the streets of Palu, and officials said they were digging a
mass grave for at least 300 of the dead.

With the prospect that thousands may have been killed, questions began mounting as
to why residents were not adequately warned of the tsunami, given the area’s long
and deadly history of facing killer waves.

Among the problems: None of the 22 buoys spread over Indonesia’s open water to
help monitor for tsunamis had been operational for the past six years, according to
Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the spokesman for the country’s national disaster agency.

The eight-story Roa Roa hotel where Mr. Mandagi, 35, had been staying was one of
the thousands of buildings in Palu that collapsed, burying him and around other 50
guests, including six more paragliders there to compete.

On Sunday, with no heavy equipment available, search-and-rescue workers used their

hands to frantically claw through the rubble, with the voices of trapped victims calling
out from the debris spurring on the brute manual effort.

A single body was pulled out of the hotel wreckage. But by Sunday evening, the site
was eerily quiet, said Indonesian search-and-rescue staff.
“Petra went to Palu to do what he loved most, which is paragliding,” said Nixon Ray,
Mr. Mandagi’s business partner in a paragliding business and a fellow adventure-
sport enthusiast.

While search and rescue efforts in Palu centered on the Roa Roa Hotel and a
shopping mall that had also crumpled, thousands of other buildings were destroyed
by the powerful earthquake and the devastating tsunami.

Information is always fragmented in the immediate aftermath of a natural

catastrophe. But Indonesia’s disaster management machinery has seemed at times
overwhelmed, even in a country that is geographically positioned to habitually endure
earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes.

Mr. Sutopo admitted that he found out about the killer tsunami that inundated Palu,
deluging a beach festival as it crashed over the sand, through social media and
television reports.

“The disaster funding continues to decrease every year,” Mr. Sutopo said. “The threat
of disasters increases, disasters increase, but the B.N.P.B. budget decreases.”

The government echoed Mr. Doseba’s concerns that the body count may surge as
search-and-rescue teams make their way to surrounding coastal settlements, like the
fishing and diving community of Donggala, which has been largely cut off by
landslides and other debris. Only 11 of the deaths confirmed so far are from
Donggala.

“The deaths are believed to be still increasing since many bodies are still under the
wreckage and many have not been able to be reached,” Mr. Sutopo said.

While World Vision’s staff from Donggala have made it safely to Palu, where
employees are sheltering in tarpaulin shelters set up in the courtyard of their office,
they passed scenes of devastation on the way, Mr. Doseba said.

“They told me they saw lots of houses that were destroyed,” he said. “It is very bad.”

As another night fell on Palu after Friday’s earthquake and tsunami, friends and
family of those still missing were holding out hope that their loved ones would be the
miracles that leaven the bleak story lines of natural disasters.

On Saturday, a little boy was delivered to the police after having been plucked from a
sewer. On Sunday, rescuers freed a woman who had been pinned under rubble for
two days with the body of her mother next to her.

Late on Sunday, a 25-year-old woman was found alive in the ruins of the Roa Roa
Hotel, according to the National Search and Rescue Agency.

Richard C. Paddock contributed reporting from Makassar, Indonesia.

QUESTION 1
WHAT Indonesia Tsunami toll climbs above 800
WHY Violent extremism worldwide has come the stereotyping of an entire
religion
WHERE Eastern Indonesia
WHEN Friday, September 28, 2018
WHO Hannah Beech and Muktita Suhartono
HOW A series of earthquakes began shaking the city of Palu on Friday afternoon

QUESTION 2
This story has total words of 778
Sources:
1. Nytimes.com
2. Bloomberg.com
3. Washingtonpost.com

QUESTION 3
Yes, there are a few opinions and controversial issues attributed as sources.

QUESTION 4
Yes, all sides of the story are represented.

QUESTION 5
Severeal sources have repeated themselves, but none of the elements can be eliminated
without weakening the story.

QUESTION 6
Human Element: Yes

QUESTION 7
Direct quotations: None
QUESTION 8
Technical terms: None

QUESTION 9
Numbers: at least 832 people had been confirmed killed.

QUESTION 10
None

QUESTION 11
Yes

QUESTION 12
Yes