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While Donggala World Vision staff have been safely traveling to the city of Palu, where employees are sheltering in tarpaulin shelters in the courtyard of their office, they have seen scenes of devastation in course, said Mr. Doseba.
"They said they saw a lot of houses destroyed," he said. "It's very bad."
Even as humanitarian aid groups began to make grim gestures to start preparing for disaster relief, some complained that foreign aid workers with great expertise were being prevented. to go to Palu. According to Indonesian regulations, financing, supplies and personnel from abroad can only begin to sink if the disaster site is declared a disaster area. This has not happened yet.
"It's still a disaster in the province," said Aulia Arriani, a spokeswoman for the Indonesian Red Cross. "Once the government says," Okay, it's a national disaster, "we can open up for international help, but there is no status yet."
As the second night fell on Palu after Friday's earthquake and tsunami, friends and family of missing persons left hope that their loved ones would be the miracles that would highlight the dark scenarios of natural disasters.
Saturday, a little boy was ripped from a sewer. On Sunday, the rescuers released a woman trapped under the rubble for two days with her mother's body next to her.
Gendon Subandono, the coach of the Indonesian National Paragliding Team, had trained two of the missing paragliders at the Asian Games, which ended earlier this month in Indonesia. The other people imprisoned at Roa Roa Hotel, including Mr. Mandagi, were his students.
"As a senior in the paragliding field, I have my own emotional burden," he said.
Mr. Gendon recounted how, in the hours following the news of the collapse of the Roa Roa hotel in the paragliding community, he had desperately sent WhatsApp messages to Palu's competitors, attending the festival from the beach. His messages, however, only resulted in a gray check mark, rather than a pair of blue checks.
"I think that means the messages have not been delivered," he said.
