Oxfam GB in Indonesia In Action

I was awaken by the irritatingly noisy sound of my alarm o’clock on that bright Sunday morning. I set it up at 6AM and it was already 6.15AM now. I guess it had been ringing for sometime waking up the whole house until finally, transmitted into my subliminal stage and woke me up.I hurriedly went to get ready as I promised Rina, my charming Oxfam colleague from Yogyakarta, to pick her up as we planned to go to an event in Rawa Buaya (directly translated as ‘Crocodile Swamp’ as historically, there might be crocodiles in the area which was why it was named after the animal). It is a place where Bina Masyarakat Peduli (BMP), one of Oxfam-supported local organisation, organised an emergency drill for Jakarta-based volunteers to train them in managing emergency situations such as when disasters struck.

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