DIRECTORATE OF ISLAMIC HIGHER EDUCATION
DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF ISLAMIC INSTITUTIONS
MINISTRY OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS
REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA

POST-TSUNAMI RECOVERY PROGRAM
FOR ISLAMIC HIGHER EDUCATION
IN DISASTER AREAS OF BANDA ACEH
AND NORTH SUMATRA
   
BACKGROUND
AR-RANIRY IAIN
OBJECTIVES
PROGRAMS
DIVISION OF CONTRIBUTION
SCHEDULE
 
 
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PROGRAM AND ACTIVITIES

 

1.    COORDINATION

Intensive coordination and communication are to be developed with the Ar-Raniri IAIN through establishing “Information and Aid Center for the Ar-Raniri IAIN” with the following tasks:

a.       to coordinate fund raising and to distribute financial assistances to the victims, especially those from the academic staff of the Ar-Raniri IAIN,

b.       to coordinate the tasks of volunteers, both from inside and outside the Ar-Raniri IAIN,

c.       to coordinate the development of recovery measures of the disaster’s aftermath with related institutions in Aceh.

d.       to collect data about the victims and destroyed buildings.

e.       To communicate the development of the recovery.

 

2.    EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE

This aims at preparing emergency assistances for lecturers, administration staff, and students of the Ar-Raniri IAIN of Banda Aceh through “Information and Aid Center”. The emergency assistances will be given through the followings:

a.       to provide operational support for the Information and Aid Center

b.       to provide temporary accommodation

c.       to provide shared kitchen

d.       to provide generator set for electricity

e.       to provide logistics

f.        to help lecturers, staff and students to have attention from  national and international aid programs.

g.       to administer the salary of the lecturers and administration staff

h.       to provide necessary guidance

In addition to manage emergency assistance for academic staff, the program will also provide similar activities for other communities of madrasahs and mosques.

 

3.    RESUMING INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES

The program will take necessary measures to resume instructional activities enabling the lecturers and the administration staff to do their jobs and allowing the students to have their rights for education, despite emergency state. The activities include the followings:

a.       to set up special team for a quick data collection about the victims  and the damages of instructional facilities in detail.

b.       to consult to Pattimura University, Ambon, about it’s experience in mobilizing lecturers, administration staff and students to resume instructional activities after the university came to a standstill.

c.       To provide emergency offices with minimum facilities for the rector and the deans to support planning and organizing alternative instructional process.

d.       to provide alternative rooms or facilities for the instructional process, including the possibility of establishing cooperation with Syiah Kuala University or neighboring mosques.

e.       to provide temporary housing for lecturers, administration staff and students.

f.        to establish cooperation with the IAIN of Medan to empowering instructional activities of the lecturers and the students of the Ar-Raniri IAIN who leave Aceh temporarily.

g.       to mobilize temporary volunteers to become lecturers and administration staff, both from Islamic higher educational institutions and NGOs.

h.       to strive for budgeting and the implementation of temporary renovation of the offices, rooms, and other facilities.

i.         to mobilize book donation and the possibility of inter-library loan from other Islamic higher educational institutions and NGOs.

j.         to strive for gaining soft loan to rehabilitate the houses of the lectures and administration staff.

k.       to provide scholarships or soft loan for the students to pay their tuition fees.

 

4.    REHABILITATION

a.     Physical rehabilitation

1)    Cleaning up the ruins from the Ar-Raniri IAIN campus,

2)    Building reconstruction

3)    Providing instructional facilities (furniture and office staffs)

b.     Trauma Counseling

1)    Establishing trauma center

2)    Motivator trainings

3)    Instructional trainings in disaster areas

4)    Community empowerment trainings in conflict areas

 

5.    RECONSTRUCTION

The great attention from donor institutions is highly beneficial to reconstruct the Ar-Raniri IAIN. The program will take advantages of the attention to set up development concepts in order to gain wider mandate to reconstruct Aceh’s civilians with the following steps:

a.     Strategic Plan

A strategic plan is essential to decide several things as the base of the future reestablishment of the Ar-Raniry IAIN. The strategic plan is designed to:

1)      decide the existing prosperities which need necessary rehabilitation and improvement.

2)      decide additional programs whose facilities should be provided within the campus.

3)      decide the future excellences of the Ar-Raniri IAIN.

4)      decide the necessities of standardized facilities, such as library, computer and information technology centers, etc.

5)      decide service program for the students who need assistantship.

b.     Campus Designing

This will involve management, expert, and consultant to translate the stipulations of the strategic plan into a blueprint of physical reconstruction of the Ar-Raniry IAIN.

c.      Instructional Designing

This will involve management, expert, and consultant to translate the stipulations of the strategic plan into a blueprint of the future education of the Ar-Raniri IAIN.