Refugee Resettlement and Rebuilding
IFC has joined with local churches in establishing
resettlement areas. These areas provide a simple home
with a garden plot-- a new beginning of much needed personal
provisions and the restoration of dignity as well. In
some cases assistance is being provided to rebuild destroyed
homes.
The Indonesian government needs wisdom in how to best deal
with the refugee crisis. IFC joins the plan to relocate
the refugees to their home islands. The safety of these
regions is getting better, yet there remains areas that
are still tense and dangerous. Some refugees have tried
to go back to their villages and have been again threatened.
Others are attempting to rebuild their lives and homes.
Their lands have been possessed by outsiders and this complicates
future safety. Please pray for the Indonesian government
as they need wisdom in how to provide lasting security to
this region. The issues that caused the crisis are complicated
and need great wisdom and care to solve.
These refugees have returned to the camps in hopes of finding
another way to rebuild their lives. This is a very complicated
and costly problem, and there is no easy solution.
A sense of hopelessness is fostered by sitting in a refugee
camp for months and even years. The camp buildings were
intended for short-term housing, but have become much stressed
and over capacity long-term housing facilities.
The complexity and difficulties of such a situation are
obvious. These people were productive farmers and fishermen
and were accustomed to providing for their families by physical
labor.
With these factors in mind, IFC is joining International
Christian Concern, private donors, Christians in Crisis,
and Christian Aid Mission to provide homes for resettled
refugees.
A basic home costs about $ 700.00 U.S. dollars to build.
They are simple two room structures made from bamboo and
local materials.
Resettlement Projects:
- Tondano--is a resettlement area that
provides housing for 85 families.
- Tobelo--Another large-scale housing
project is being developed on the island of Halmahera
at Tobelo.
- Tondano Beach--Sixty family sites with
ocean front access, under proposed development for September
2003.
- Pandu--IFC has provided a water well
which serves some of the 500 families in this resettlement
site.
- Poso--The rebuilding of 400 homes and
water wells.
- Bitung--IFC has drilled a water well
to provide for nearly 1000 people in this resettlement
camp.
Rebuilding Destroyed Homes:
- Poso and Tentena remain unstable in spite of a period
of security during the deployment of Indonesian Military.
It is our hope that the refugees from this region will
be able to restore there lives and seek restoration. Some
of the villages have been rebuilt. Pray for total restoration
of all faiths in this region.
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