“You have 400-500 people packed into a ship. By the time they arrive, they are very weak. Some of them are dying. Their condition is worsened by the squalid conditions of the camp where there is a shortage of clean water. They then succumb to malaria and respiratory problems.”
“We only heard that the government would send aid but we have yet to see it. Whatever supplies we have come from donations from hospitals, non-government organizations and individuals from Java.”
