The Restoring Family Links website, which can be accessed at https://familylinks.icrc.
o help the search and rescue efforts in the aftermath of the 7.4-magnitude earthquake and the subsequent tsunami, which devastated a large portion of Palu and Donggala regency in Central Sulawesi, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Indonesian Red Cross have set up a Restoring Family Links website where people can submit reports of missing relatives.
The website went online on Oct. 3. Prior to that, Restoring Family Links allowed people to submit reports via email, according to Restoring Family Links division head Andreane Tampubolon.
“We were inundated with emails. We’ve received 500 emails as of Sept. 2. We decided to set up a website that could efficiently merge all of these reports into one public database,” Andreane told The Jakarta Post.
The Restoring Family Links website, which can be accessed at https://familylinks.icrc.
Website users can then regularly check public lists, made available on the website, to keep an eye on updates regarding their relatives. Furthermore, users who have already found their missing relatives can immediately update their report on the website and close their case.
Andreane said the website had received 80 reports of survivors and missing people to date. In an effort to improve communications in disaster-hit Palu and Donggala regenct, the Red Cross had also dispatched several personnel in the field to set up satellite phones, she added.
As of Oct. 3, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) had recorded 70,821 displaced people in the region.
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