ALERT: Magnitude-6.2 earthquake strikes Pasaman
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On Friday morning, February 25, 2022, at 8:39 am local time, the West Pasaman region and surrounding areas were rocked by a magnitude-6.2 earthquake. Friday’s epicenter was located 12 kilometers northeast of West Pasaman, West Sumatra. (See the red dot in the upper right corner of the image above.)
As of Feb. 26, the national disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) said that 6,002 people had been evacuated, 8 died, 10 severely injured, and 76 lightly wounded. For more current information, please click here ! YOU CAN HELP !Serious damages were experienced close to our previous station Sukamenanti. Even loss of lives were reported. The office of the Bupati, where we were received almost three years ago, was also damaged.
Wolfram Hiemann and Dieter Speidel supported by other Alumni discussed the possibility of supporting those who were affected most by the earthquake and had lost their home and property. Luckily there are still same reserve funds left from our visit to West Pasaman. These, together with some additional contributions, totaled 10.0 mio Rp. After consultations with Ibu Tina Musa it was agreed, that she will assist with her NGO to use these funds for first relief measures on behalf of the ADP/Ophir Alumni members. Pak Hiemann will transfer the funds to the NGO bank account in Ujung Gading asap. As these funds will certainly not be sufficient, we would like our ALUMNI members to make an additional voluntary contribution. In case you would like to transfer an additional donation in IDR please use the following account provided by Tina: Account name: BMT ISDA Account number: 1110011977051 Bank name: Bank Mandiri, Unit Ujung Gading, Pasaman Barat, Indonesia SWIFT Code: BMRIIDJA Terima kasih! |
Regular Updates & News
Every time we receive old documents, images and videos we put them online asap. See the links to the latest entries here:
- New aerial photos of West Pasaman coastlines and cities
- Staff News: Sari Wooster
- Staff News: Andreas Kunzmann
- Climbing Gunung Talamau in April 1991 by Wolfram Hiemann
- Cattle Husbandry Padang Mengatas / ADP, Hanne Goehsing, August 1976
- The road from Suliki to Fort Bonjol - Photos by Susan Ebert
- Climbing Gunung Rinjani in Lombok - Photos by Susan Ebert
- Bad Honnef 2016 - see an image map with all participants and names
- Simpang Empat 2019 - see an image with all participants and names
- West Sumatra Images from 1969 and 1971, by Ulrich Scholz
- Report ADP West Pasaman Projektfindungsmission, Dürr 1979, dtsch. / engl. summary
- Sukamenanti: Slideshow - the motocross weekend
- SCALA Magazine 4/1988: ADP - Proyek Kerja Sama
- Updated videos from our Alumni meeting in Padang 2019
- Salamat Hari Raya Idul Fitri 1442 H
- Buy the Book! Alumni ADP/Ophir Visit to West Pasaman and West Sumatra!
Newsletter Archive
For the Padang Alumni meeting in 2019 we published regular newsletter with latest news. You can download the newsletters.
NEWSLETTER NO. 4 INCL. REGISTRATION
| final_itinerary_v4_west_sumatra_feb_2019.docx |
Newsletter No. 5
Newsletter No. 6
| west_sumatra_newsletter_6_-_2018.pdf |
NEWSLETTER NO. 7
NEWSLETTER NO. 8 ENG
| newsletter_8_en_jan_19.docx |
NEWSLETTER NO. 8 DE
| newsletter_8_de_jan_19.docx |
NEWSLETTER NO. 9 ENG
| newsletter_9_en.pdf |
NEWSLETTER NO. 9 DE
| newsletter_9_de.pdf |
NEWSLETTER NO. 10 DE / ENG
| newsletter_no._10_de_en.pdf |
NEWSLETTER NO. 10 DE / ENG
| newsletter_11_de_en.pdf |