Indonesia receives German tsunami warning equipment

Описание: (10 Oct 2005) SHOTLIST

1. Wide shot of German research vessel Sonne
2. Close up of vessel's name 'Sonne'
3. Close up of vessel's radar
4. Pan left of German research vessel Sonne
5. Close up shot of banner saying "The establishment of tsunami early warning system in the Indian ocean. An Indonesian-German contribution."
6. Mid shot of buoy
7. Close up of buoy
8. Wide shot of State Secretary Frieder Meyer-Krahmer shaking hands with Minister Kusmayanto Kadiman
9. Cutaway officials
10. Mid shot of Krahmer shaking hands with officials
11. Cutaway cameramen
12. Various shot of buoy
13. Tilt down seismometer
14. Close up of writing on seismometer
15. Wide shot of news conference
16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Frieder Meyer-Krahmer, State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research:
"On behalf of the government of the Federal Republic of Germany, I would like to hand over to our Indonesian partner the first German's state of the art GPS buoy as a core element for establishing its tsunami early warning system in the Indian ocean."
17. Cutaway German officials.
18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Frieder Meyer-Krahmer State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research:
"The most fascinating aspect of the concept is that it guarantees the recording of hazards primarily by rapid satellite based communication and thereby provides highly reliable warnings within the shortest possible time."
19. Cutaway German officials
20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kusmayanto Kadiman, Minister of Research and Technology:
"From technology point of view we are confident not only placing these two buoys but also the integration with the existing system that we already have and also with some other equipment that will installed in the very near future."
21. Mid shot of minister and officials.
22. Various shot of monitors and equipments inside the vessel's laboratory

STORYLINE

A team of German and Indonesian scientists will set sail for Sumatra island on Tuesday to install a tsunami warning system in the region worst hit by last year's Asian killer wave disaster.

The system involves sensors on the ocean floor and giant buoys on the surface of the sea that transmit information about earthquake activity to observation stations on the coast via satellite.

The setup will be able to notify the observation stations within 10 minutes of a tsunami-strength earthquake.

They will then automatically alert local media and residents via mobile phone text message, e-mail and fax, officials said.

It will be operational in Sumatra by the end of the year, according to the officials.

The Indonesian Minister of Research and Technology, Kusmayanto Kadiman, said he was confident about the implementation of the technology.

The system offers the possibility of "highly reliable warnings within the shortest possible time," said Freider Meyer Krahmer, state secretary at Germany's ministry of education and research, at a ceremony on board the Sonne, a German research vessel.

He said it would not only warn against tsunamis, but also other hazards such as volcanic eruptions and storms.

The system will eventually be expanded to cover all of Indonesia, one the most seismically active regions in the world, he added.

The December 26 earthquake and tsunami killed or left missing more than 220,000 people in 11 Indian Ocean nations.

Sumatra, on the westernmost end of the Indonesian archipelago, was the hardest hit, losing some 128,000 people.

Sumatra has been wracked by scores of powerful aftershocks since the monster quake that generated the tsunami last year.


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