Dear colleagues, I send you the Special Newsletter of 'ICOMOS Tsunami
Reconstruction'.
Alessandra, could ICOM follow this example of ICOMOS?
Marie Chrsitine van der Sman/Blue Shield NL/ICOM EC.
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Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 6:33 AM
Subject: Direct ICOMOS member financial support for tsunami affected
National Committees
ICOMOS
International Cultural Tourism Committee
Special Newsletter No.9: Tsunami Reconstruction
02 January 2005
Here is a copy of the letter that I have just sent to the ICOMOS Executive
Committee and ISC Chairs, suggesting that ICOMOS members might individually
like to provide direct financial support for their colleagues in the
countries affected by the Tsunami. This support will be needed in the
medium term, once the immediate humanitarian disaster has been overcome.
Please let me have your reaction to the idea, and pass on the concept to
your national committee. I will keep you informed of any progress.
Also attached are two brief emails received from our colleagues in Indonesia
and Thailand. Our hearts and prayers go out to them all.
Kind regards
Graham Brooks
2 January 2005
Dear ICOMOS Colleagues
The people of Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Malaysia
and the African coastline have clearly suffered enormously over the last
week following the devastation of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean. ICOMOS
members have been very busy enquiring after the health and safety of friends
and colleagues. In general we are relieved that most are apparently OK. No
doubt many members have already responded to local calls for financial
donations to help with disaster relief for the stricken coastal communities.
There is a greater opportunity that now presents itself:
Providing direct financial assistance to the ICOMOS Committees in the
affected countries to enable them to respond to the associated impacts on
the cultural heritage and cultural landscapes of their regions.
While the world is mobilising for the first round of emergency humanitarian
relief, the months and years that follow will require a great deal of
effort as societies begin the enormous task of rebuilding shattered lives
and communities. ICOMOS should play a role in this reconstruction,
surveying damaged places, providing advice on priorities for repair and
reconstruction, guiding the larger agencies in sensitive reconstruction
work, rebuilding the intangible heritage of traumatised communities. It
will be the local ICOMOS members in each country who can make the greatest
and most enduring contribution to the task.
ICOMOS has undertaken an enormous amount of work in recent years developing
the Heritage@Risk program, and the Blue Shield program. Now is the time for
some really practical assistance.
I suggest that ICOMOS Members should be encouraged to direct any additional
financial assistance or donations that they may be considering directly to
the ICOMOS National Committees in the affected countries.
Clearly, each National Committee should be asked by ICOMOS if they are able
to receive and utilise direct funding support over the coming months. If
so, they should be encouraged to advise Gaia in Paris and provide details of
the most efficient way to transfer funds. In this way individual ICOMOS
Members can then contribute directly to the work of the local Committees.
There may be issues of accountability and transparency that may discourage
individual committees from accepting funds. It may be that the processes of
achieving accountability for individual gifts are too onerous for their
limited resources. However, most of the money that has already been pledged
world wide is given in the spirit of charity and with good will. There is
an implied assumption that the receiving agency or organisation will
responsibily utilise the funds to the best of their abilities.
Please give this some thought. Perhaps the Executive Committee can liaise
directly with the relevant national committees to establish their plans
regarding the devastation in their own area. The ISC Chairs can then pass
the message around their respective committees. There is no doubt that a
natural disaster of this scale and intensity will affect all of the
specialised areas of the cultural heritage that are the particular focus of
individual ISCs.
This is an excellent opportunity for individual ICOMOS members to make a
real and very focussed contribution to an area that is of great personal
importance to all of us.
Kind Regards
Graham Brooks
Cultural Tourism Committee
01 January 2005
Dear Sirs,
The situation in Thailand still be difficult to tell about the overall view
of damage on Cultural Heritages. We had a contact with an ICOMOS Thailand
friend in Phuket who described us the unreachable way to survey the heritage
sites in the devastating area. The paths are obstructed with demolitions and
mud everywhere. The priority rescues go directly to help and relief the
human victims. The expected survey plan will be start immediatly, after the
ways are clear.
As far as we are informed, our Cultural Landscape in the devastating parts
of Phang-gha and Krabi province, are seriously damaged. Most of fisherman
villages and their ecological environments are destroyed completly.
Up to now, all of our committee and members are fine, one could survive
himself from Phuket, but some loss their friends in this natural
catastrophy.
On behalf of ICOMOS Thailand, we are thankful to ICOMOS and all friends for
giving us support and solidity. If there are more infos, we will send you
the further report.
Sincerely,
Ratsamee Rattanachaiyanont
ICOMOS Thailand Secretariat
01 January 2005
Dear Graham
Several of the letters from ICOMOS friends have asked us to surface our
needs...and I did ask our stricken friends to tell me what consequences
occurred to monuments/sites in the area. I am however not surprized that I
havent heard from them yet.
Aceh Jaya and Nias are the most obvious targets. I dont think anything was
damaged in Medan.
My heritage friend from Aceh has not written to me yet. We were helping
identify heritage programs for Aceh a year ago with the help of an Acehnese
who is doing PhD work in Bandung. I am sad, because I think the whole
district is now either under water, or destroyed. Can't tell from the video
footage that I have seen--but the satelite photos don't look good.
Frances Affandy
ICOMOS Indonesia
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