Tsunami Essay

THE INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI
A CASE STUDY INVESTIGATION BY NATO RTO SAS-065 PART TWO: THE CASE OF ACEH AND NORTH SUMATRA

CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS: Reiner Huber Tor Langsaeter Petra Eggenhofer Fernando Freire António Grilo Anne-Marie Grisogono Jose Martins Jens Roemer Mink Spaans Klaus Titze 24 March 2008

INTRODUCTION
This paper presents Part Two of a case study on the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 26 December 2004 meant to support the development of a C2 Maturity Model for networked enabled capabilities (NEC) by the NATO RTO research task group, SAS-065. Together with several other case studies of complex civil-military endeavours it is meant to inform the assessment of the current draft of the maturity model 1 as to what extent the model’s assumptions, about C2 maturity levels and transition requirements between maturity levels, are reflected by the observations and experience available from real world operations as a basis for requisite adaptations of the model. Part One of the Tsunami case study is primarily based on the Synthesis Report of the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition (TEC) 2 and various web-based accounts that address common problems associated with the emergency response operations throughout the Indian Ocean region. Part two concentrates on the response in the district of Aceh in Northern Sumatra as described by Kirsten Schulze 3 and Louise K. Comfort, 4 and the World Bank review of the post-tsunami communication environment in Aceh. 5 Aimed at identifying different levels of operational and C2 maturity as defined by the Maturity Model, both parts of the study concentrate on findings related to the coordination of disaster response: Part One on Immediate and Follow-on Relief in the six months period following the disaster covering the reach of the UN Flash Appeal of 5 January 2005; 6 Part Two on Immediate and Follow-on Relief, as well as Recovery and