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WFP began working in Indonesia in 1963 and ended its programme 33 years later because of significant progress made in achieving food self-sufficiency. WFP provided assistance in August 1998 to deal with the impact of severe drought and Indonesia's economic crisis in 1997. WFP's operation in Indonesia increased significantly after a powerful earthquake measuring 9.1 on the Richter scale struck off the coast of Aceh Province in Sumatra on 26 December 2004 setting off a series of large tsunamis across the Indian Ocean region. An emergency operation (EMOP) was setup to help cater for approximately 800,000 people displaced by the tsunami in the island of Sumatra. This programme was subsequently absorbed into an expanded protracted relief and recovery operation (PRRO) 10069.1 which was active as of January 2006 targeting 2,182,250 beneficiaries.

Four years after arriving in Banda Aceh, the WFP PRRO was handed over to the Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Provincial Government in April 2008. Eight districts will continue to implement the Maternal Child Nutritional (MCN) and Food-For-Education (FFE) programmes using local resources following extensive training from the cooperating partners (CPs) and WFP. On 01 January 2008, PRRO 10062.2 was started and targeting 850,000 beneficiaries for "Nutritional Rehabilitation in Indonesia".

In terms of international shipments of rice, there are two entry points, namely Jakarta and Surabaya. WFP is responsible for vessel/container discharging and transport/forwarding to the warehouse. To date the wheat received internationally, has been in bulk shipments through Jakarta port. The commodities are first transformed into wheat flour. The wheat flour is then delivered to biscuit and noodle factories by WFP from the milling factories. Biscuits and noodles are produced and delivered to WFP or Cooperating Partners (CPs) warehouses.

Locally procured rice is mainly carried out through the Government of Indonesia (GoI) in Bulog.  However since late 2008, procurement has established contracts with commercial entities so as to diversify suppliers and seek competitive prices. CPs uplift commodities from the GOI BULOG and WFP warehouses and distribute from the Final Distribution Point (FDP) level in all locations. Other locally procured commodities, namely biscuits and noodles, are delivered to WFP Extended Delivery Points (EDPs) and further dispatched to CPs' warehouses before distribution.

Sufficient storage facilities (permanent and mobile) were put in place to cater for the incoming volume of commodities during the PRRO. Special efforts were made to increase the storage capacity thus catering for procurement and distribution constraints. This has allowed Logistics to pre-position food commodities a month in advance and therefore not depend on direct deliveries from suppliers. There are permanent storage facilities in Jakarta (1,000-MT capacity), Surabaya (850-MT capacity), Kupang (4.500-MT capacity) and Lombok ((NTB) 400-MT capacity). In addition, mobile warehouses were erected in Mataram and Pringgabaya in the province of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) with a total storage capacity of 320 MT.

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