The secretary of the Indonesian Welfare Association of NSW, Juliani Omggo, said the community was waiting to hear more news about loved ones back home. Loading.Īustralia's Indonesian community said it was devastated another natural disaster had hit the country. Yellow, orange and black body bags were laid out, and weeping relatives identified the dead. Debris from bamboo shacks was strewn along beaches. Vehicles were tossed into the rubble or were buried under collapsed roofs. Broken chunks of concrete and splintered sticks of wood littered hard-hit coastal areas, turning beach getaways popular with Jakarta residents into near ghost towns. Nine hotels and hundreds of homes were heavily damaged by the waves. The damage became apparent after daybreak on Sunday. "Unfortunately, when the current receded, our members were unable to save themselves while some did not find a place to hold on." Hundreds of homes destroyed, debris spread across shore "The tide rose to the surface and dragged all the people on site," the statement said. The group released a statement saying their bass player, guitarist and road manager were killed, while two other band members and the wife of one of the performers were missing. Seconds later, with the drummer pounding just as the next song was about to begin, the stage suddenly heaved forward and buckled under the force of the water, tossing the band and its equipment into the audience. A child could also be seen wandering through the crowd. "I cried in fear … 'This is a tsunami?' I was afraid I would die." Loading.ĭramatic video posted on social media showed the Indonesian pop band Seventeen performing under a tent on popular Tanjung Lesung beach at a concert for employees of a state-owned electricity company.ĭozens of people sat at tables while others swayed to the music near the stage as strobe lights flashed and theatrical smoke was released. "I was thrown into the fence of a building about 30 metres from the beach and held onto the fence as strong as I could, trying to resist the water, which felt like it would drag me back into the sea. "Suddenly, a 1-metre wave hit me," he said. He said he ran to the parking lot to try to reach his motorbike but discovered it was already flooded. ( AP)Īzki, who was undergoing vocational training with a group of 30 other students, said he was confused because he had not felt a big earthquake. Indonesian authorities are battling debris and difficult weather to search for bodies.
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