Abstract:
In December 26 2004, a massive earthquake occurred in the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia with a moment magnitude of 8.9 - 9.0 richer scale. With the casualties of the death and missing toll climbed to about 300.000, the natural disaster remembered as one of the worst natural disaster occurred. Aceh province, the closest area from the epicenter of the earthquake by held tsunami aid and as the worst casualties with more than 100.000 people lost their lives. 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami was recorded as the worst natural disaster in terms of human fatalities in Indonesia history. Natural disaster is a global concern, in response of 2004 IOET, international community form of governments, NGOs, IOs and private sectors show their concern by held tsunami aid and technical support that offered to assist the disaster stricken country relief effort. With over US$ 14 billion humanitarian aid mobilized in the financial terms, tsunami aid became the biggest single aid that ever being mobilized. Japan as one of the biggest donor country in the world also show their concern in response the disaster by providing US$500 million humanitarian grant aid as part of their ODA. Considering the long bilateral relation with Indonesia and Aceh as the area with worst casualties, Japan allocate US$146 million the humanitarian grant aid to Indonesia. Japan assistance to Indonesia after 2004 IOET divided into 3 stages which are short term for emergency reliefs, middle term for rehabilitation and long term for reconstruction.
