'''Indonésie: Le bilan du tsunami atteint 525 morts'''

mercredi 19 juillet 2006, mis à jour à 08:14 Indonésie Le bilan du tsunami atteint 525 morts Julien Bordier, avec Reuters

Le bilan du raz-de-marée qui a déferlé lundi sur des villages de pêcheurs et des plages de l'île de Java, dans le sud de l'Indonésie, a fait 525 morts

Le bilan du raz-de-marée qui a déferlé lundi sur des villages de pêcheurs et des plages de l'île de Java, dans le sud de l'Indonésie, a fait 525 morts.

Quatre étrangers au moins ont été recensés parmi les victimes, dont un Néerlandais. Le ministère des Affaires étrangères français a précisé mardi qu'aucune victime française n'était pour l'instant à déplorer.

Aucune alerte au tsunami n'a été enregistrée lundi en amont de la vague, malgré les efforts des pays de la région pour mettre au point un dispositif d'alerte efficace, depuis le tsunami de décembre 2004.

Un système d'alerte indonésien était en marche mais il n'a pas fonctionné. De nombreux habitants et touristes semblent toutefois avoir reconnu d'eux même les signes d'un tsunami, et ont couru pour s'abriter sur des zones terrestres plus élevées.

"Quand la vague est arrivée, j'ai entendu des gens crier et ensuite j'ai entendu comme un avion qui s'écrasait près de là, et j'ai juste couru", a raconté à Reuters Ouli Soutarlin qui se trouvait sur une plage.

Des vagues de 1,5 mètre de haut ont projeté des voitures, des motos et des bateaux sur les façades d'hôtel et de restaurants, les devantures de magasins et les habitations. Les champs ont été inondés jusqu'à 500 mètres à l'intérieur des terres.

L'aide arrive Au lendemain du tsunami, les secours s'organisaient. Des soldats tentaient mardi de récupérer les corps bloqués sous les décombres. Des cadavres ont été retrouvés dans les branches des arbres bordant la plage touristique de Pangandaran, près de la ville de Ciamis, à 270 km au sud-est de Djakarta, a annoncé la chaîne de télévision Metro.

Des rangées de cadavres, recouverts de tissus en plastique, forment une morgue improvisée.

Des Indonésiens ayant perdu leur maison se confectionnaient mardi des abris à l'aide de paillassons et de bouts de plastique, tandis que les camions des organisations d'aide commençaient à arriver sur le site.

"Les gens ont commencé à rentrer chez eux, même si la plupart d'entre eux restent dans les hauteurs", explique un membre du centre de catastrophe de Pangandaran.

De magnitude 7,7 sur l'échelle de Richter, le séisme sous-marin à l'origine du tsunami, dont l'épicentre se situait à environ 180 km de la côte indonésienne, s'est produit à 08h19 GMT, selon le centre d'étude américain en géologie.

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Tsunami death toll hits 341

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

The death toll from Monday's tsunami that ravaged beach resorts and fishing villages along the southern coast of Java reached 341 Tuesday, with at least 229 people reported missing.

Vice President Jusuf Kalla, speaking after a Cabinet meeting Tuesday afternoon, also said 80 people were injured and more than 40,000 displaced in the aftermath of the tsunami, which was triggered by a 6.8-magnitude undersea earthquake off the coast Monday afternoon.

At least three foreigners from Japan, Belgium and Sweden were confirmed killed, he said. Five Saudi Arabians were reportedly injured.

Presidential spokesman Andi Alfian Mallarangeng said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had postponed a planned visit to worst-affect Pangandaran, West Java, and Cilacap, Central Java, which was tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, because he first wanted to monitor the latest developments.

"We haven't decided the date of the visit yet. The President wants to monitor the developments," Andi was quoted as saying by Antara newswire.

No warnings were reported ahead of the four-meter-high waves, despite regional efforts to establish early warning systems after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that left about 230,000 dead or missing, including 170,000 in Nanggroe Aceh Darrusalam. The system is currently only in place in Sumatra.

But experts believe many residents and tourists, recognizing the signs of the tsunami from reports about Aceh, fled to higher ground as the sea receded before huge waves came crashing ashore.

"When the waves came, I heard people screaming and then I heard something like a plane about to crash nearby, and I just ran," Uli Sutarli, a plantation worker who was on Pangandaran beach, told Reuters.

The waves flung cars, motorbikes and boats into hotels and storefronts, flattened homes and restaurants, and flooded rice fields up to 500 meters from the sea along a stretch of the densely populated coastline.

In Bandung, the West Java provincial administration declared a seven-day emergency phase to help speed up handling of the disaster.

In Cilacap, the spokesman for the local regency administration, Adi Nugroho, said 89 people were declared dead and 49 others missing as of Tuesday afternoon, while in the adjacent city of Kebumen, seven died and 46 were missing.

Most of the victims were farmers who were tending their fields near the coast, people at nearby food stalls or livestock handlers in the area, Adi said.

In Yogyakarta, three people were confirmed dead -- two from Drini coast in Gunung Kidul and another person in Parangtritis, Bantul. Two fishermen were declared missing after last being seen fishing at Samas beach off Bantul, which was devastated by an earthquake on May 27.

Based on Kebumen regency data, up to 467 fishing boats at Ayah coast were damaged, while 150 were affected in Yogyakarta.

"Many of the boats can no longer be used after they were wrecked by the tidal waves," a fisherman, Suwondo, said in Depok, Bantul.

Along the southern coast of Yogyakarta, local residents voluntarily cleaned up the rubble of demolished restaurants.

"Everything is destroyed here. After recovering from the recent earthquake, and with visitors starting to come here again, now we are hit by the tsunami," Wardiyo said as he cleared dirt from his restaurant in Parangtritis.

"We rely on tourists for our livelihood. I don't know what to do next. Small people like us can only be resigned to all this."

Slamet Susanto contributed to this article from Yogyakarta, Suherdjoko from Kebumen, Agus Maryono from Cilacap and Yuli Tri Suwarni from Bandung.