Java, Indonesia: As the aid operation in Java shifts from providing immediate relief, the long, painstaking task of recovery activities such as psycho-social support steps in.  Read article

Yogyakarta, Indonesia: In the little village of Garanguro, outside Yogyakarta, the neighbours helped each other pull victims out of the rubble. The residents bonded, literally, after the quake that hit Yogyakarta on 29 May, living together after all 160 houses were destroyed. Emergency response is most effective, the author claims, when people themselves get involved in the first hours after a disaster.  Read article

Java, Indonesia: Volunteers for the Indonesian earthquake are trying to communicate with victims through sign language and volunteer interpreters.   Read article

Geneva, Switzerland: United Nations agencies, plus some 400 volunteers from the Indonesian Red Cross, have quickly mobilized relief operations for the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the devastating earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of Java on 27 May.  Read article

Oregon, USA: US-based Northwest Medical Teams is sending highly trained medical volunteers to the island of Java on Tuesday to help care for thousands of survivors of Saturday's massive earthquake centered near the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta.   Read article

Singapore City, Singapore: Forty medical personnel and volunteers from Alexandra Hospital, the Singapore Red Cross and Mercy Relief left for Yogyakarta on Tuesday morning to help quake victims there.   Read article

Sraten, Indonesia: Volunteers started arriving in small numbers in this hard-to-reach village of 300 people. Villagers are not expecting volunteers like Tuti Winarti, a medical student, to travel from Central Java together with her father and 13 paramedics to help. They were relieved just the same.   Read article

Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Volunteer-run amateur radio operators in Indonesia are providing emergency communication for relief operations in the wake of a 6.3 magnitude earthquake Saturday affecting Yogyakarta and surrounding area.  Read article