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The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center and Indonesia’s alms agency have delivered tens of thousands of individual health kits and food parcels to more than 75,000 survivors of the deadly earthquake that struck eastern Indonesia earlier this year.
The magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit off the coast of Flores island in East Nusa Tenggara province in mid-August, killing at least 156 people and injuring more than 1,600 others. It was the country’s deadliest quake since 2022, when hundreds of people died in West Java.
More than 28,000 people remained displaced across 10 regencies and cities in Flores, according to the latest official data, after more than 119,000 homes were damaged by the August quake.
Indonesia’s zakat agency Baznas said that 15,000 food parcels and another 15,000 individual health kits, worth 18 billion rupiah or nearly $1 million, had been delivered to communities in the affected areas to help meet their basic needs.
KSrelief said the assistance was important to the recovery of affected communities in East Nusa Tenggara. A Baznas official said the Saudi aid agency had to overcome various obstacles and seek alternative flight routes because of the difficult situation in Saudi Arabia and the closure of Riyadh airport.
“Although about three months have passed since the earthquake occurred, the affected communities still require support to meet their basic daily needs,” a Baznas official added.
KSrelief has partnered with Baznas since 2022 to support Indonesians in need with food aid and has regularly distributed such assistance across various districts and cities in the country, including during Ramadan.
Teams from both the Saudi aid agency and its Indonesian partner also carried out field surveys and held meetings with local officials this week, assessing the humanitarian situation and helping identify the most urgent needs of the communities and determine aid priorities, Baznas said.
The Indonesian archipelago lies on the so-called “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines along the Pacific Basin that leads to a high frequency of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
In 2004, a 9.1-magnitude quake off Sumatra island triggered a tsunami that killed almost 230,000 people in more than a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia.
