IN NANGRO ACEH
DARUSSALAM
INDONESIAEARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIDISASTER IN ACEH
In the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004,
coastal Aceh was the worst hit, being closest to thequake's epicentre. Aceh suffered massive losses interms of life and property, infrastructure and naturalenvironment. Entire settlements were swept away,
and a large part of the capital Banda Aceh wasdestroyed.

MAP OF INDONESIA

Map of Nangro Aceh Darussalam

Infrastructure and Environment
Damages

Infrastructure

Environment

Heritage Damages

BeforeAfterLibrary Damages Including Man Power Building Collection
 Equipment
 Mobile Libraries

Public Library

Looked from thefront side

Looked from the back side

Public Library Damages

207.000 copies ofBooks was destroyed

Equipment

Inside the LibraryPublic Library Damages

Mobile Libraries
DamagesMobile Libraries
Damages

Ali Hasyimi Library collects rare book andmanuscript

The library wasn’t destroyed by tsunami but when the earthquake
came the books felt down on the wet floor and became wet, thelibrarian spread out the books in the sun to dry.

Rare books and Manuscript Collections
DamagesDamaged by insect,fungus
Their manuscript collection is now became more important as sourceof Aceh history, because Aceh Documentation and Information Center
which is collect large of Aceh manuscript totally damaged

SCHOOL LIBRARY DAMAGES:
Buildings

Equipment

Books

The librarian Spread Out theBooks in The Sun to Dry,
they don’t know what should
they do on the wet books

Problem and Solution
ProblemSolution

Lack of Librarians - Staff Recruitment- Hold LibraryTechnical Training
ProgramLack of Knowledge
Hold DisasterHow to Handle Library Preparedness
Materials afterTraining Program
DisasterProblem and Solution
 Library Building

Reconstructions

 Library Equipment

Purchasing

DamagesDamages

ProblemSolution

Mobile Libraries
Damages

Purchasing

Books Damages

Purchasing

Manuscripts
DamagesConserving
Searching forcompiling local
manuscripts title andMedia Transforming

The efforts done
Supporter

Type of Support
Book collections andEquipments-National Library ofMobile Library- National Library ofIndonesia

Buildings-German government

Australia-Goethe Institute Jakarta-National Library ofIndonesia-Sampoerna (privatebody)Conserving Landcertificate- JICA (JapanInternational Cooperation
Agency-National Archive-National Library ofIndonesia

Searching andConserving Banda Aceh
Manuscript-National Archive-Indonesian Islamic

University-Nusantara Manuscript
Society-National Library ofIndonesia

Searching Manuscript Search Aceh Manuscript in Tanoh Abee.
 Tanoh Abee is Pesantren, a place that educate people

to boarder their knowledge of Islam.
 It was built in 1625 by Al Farusy Al Bagdadi

Tanoh Abee Ancient Library The library collects

6000 manuscripts,
originally 100.000
manuscripts. They lost
most of theircollection because
they can maintain thecollection properly

The Manuscript Condition
 Holed and torn byinsect Dirt by fungus
 Brittle caused ofclimate

The Manuscript Collection will be Fumigated Conserved Digital PreservedImportant Archive Rescuing Land certificate

Nasional(National LandAgency)

Kept by Badan PertanahanImportance of Land Certificate should be
Rescued as evidence of land ownership most of tsunami victim lost their land certificate
 after tsunami disaster the land border changed

extremely.

Form of Important Archive Sheet Binding

The Document Damages
 Dirt Wet
 Fungus
 TornSteps to Rescue the Document
 Evacuating the documents from disaster area Transporting the documents to the save place Cleaning the documents from mud Dip drying the documents in ethanol 70%
 Drying the documents (sheet) Wrapping the document in silicon paper Packaging the document (binding) in boxes Keeping the documents in to Cold Storage -30º C
 Moving the binding documents in to vacuum chamber tomake them dry
 Transform the documents in digital Building the data baseEvacuating the Documents

DISASTER AREA

The Document to be transported fromDisaster Area

Transporting to a Save PlaceKeeping in A Strorage

Cleaning Dry Cleaning:Cleanthe dirt at the coverand the edges using abrush Wet Cleaning: Soakthe archives in thewater, brush the wet
paper to remove thedirt inside the coverDip Drying the Documents in Ethanol Dip drying the

document in ethanol70%
to keep the document
wet and eliminate thespreading of fungus.

 Covering the

documents withplastic sheet to keep
the document stay wet
until drying step.

The Room Temperature and Humidity

Document Drying

 Done by drying tool, natural and mass drying

The Document Drying (individually)
 Using Dryer Tool
 It takes a day perperson to dry abound document

The Sheet Document Drying
 Dry in the room

temperature (NaturalDrying)Mass Drying Problem_ There was no vacuum
chamber- It takes 5 months to get
vacuum chamber fromoverseas- The document getting dry
day by day- There was no cold storage
in Banda Aceh to keep the
document stay wet in 5months

 Solution- Purchase the vacuum
chamber- The documents to betransported to Jakarta tokeep in cold storage

Document Packaging
 Wrapping thedocuments withsilicon paper andpackage them inboxes before they aretransported to Jakarta

 Moving thedocuments fromBanda Aceh to Jakarta
by AirplaneMoving the Documents from Airport tocold storage, 20 miles distance Moving theDocuments from theTruck

Moving the Document to Cold Storage
 The storage

temperature is– 30 º C
 The document kept ina cool storage until thevacuum chamber
arrive from Japan.

The Recommendation
Num Activities

Time

1

Books and Library
Equipment
Purchasing

2005-20062

Library andDisaster Training
Program2005

3Library Buildings
Reconstruction

2005-2008

4

Mobile Library Purchasing

2005-2006

5Land Sertificate Rescuing:Conservation, Digital
Preservation, Data
BaseBuilding

2005-2006

6Searching, Conserving
and Media Transforming
Aceh Manuscript

2005-2007

The Progress
Num
1
2
3Activities
Books and LibraryEquipment Purchasing
Library and Disaster
Training Program
Library Buildings
Reconstruction

Explainations
Done 2005 to 2009
Done 2006 to 2009
Done 2005 to 2008

Nunber

Activities

4

Mobile Library Purchasing

Done 2007

5

Land Sertificate Rescuing:Conservation, Digital
Preservation, Data BaseBuilding

Done 2005 to 2010

6Searching, Conserving andMedia Transforming Aceh
Manuscript

Done 2005 to now

Library and Disaster Training ProgramLibrary Buildings Reconstruction

beforeafterMobile Library Purchasing

The brand new
mobil libraries

At the time of theincident

The Handover of Land Titles

The damage
document