20 January 2005
Imagery from Operation Sumatra Assist

Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel are assisting Indonesian Government authorities as part of the Australian Government programme of humanitarian relief following the Boxing Day tsunami. The ADF has been working in support of tsunami disaster relief in Indonesia's North Sumatra and Aceh Provinces since 28 December 2004.

Relief assistance provided by Australia is part of a co-operative effort involving the ADF, DFAT (AusAID), and Emergency Management Australia. Water, tentage, medical supplies, blankets and other emergency provisions, and logistical support have been provided. In the tsunami-devastated provincial capital of Banda Aceh, the ADF have set up a water purification plant and have established the Anzac Field Hospital, a field hospital operated jointly by medical personnel of the ADF and the New Zealand Defence Force. The Australian Navy amphibious transport ship, HMAS Kanimbla, delivered a detachment of Australian Army Engineers on 13 January, and has taken up station as a floating support and logistics base for relief and reconstruction work.

JPAU19JAN05PC004 A Royal Australian Air Force C-130J Hercules aircraft lands with humanitarian relief aid cargo at Banda Aceh Airport, Indonesia. (Date taken: 19 January 2005) Low-Res | Hi-Res	JPAU19JAN05PC015 Lieutenant Kian Bullock from the Australian Army 23rd Operations Support Squadron, Darwin, digs a drainage ditch in an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. (Date taken: 19 January 2005) Low-Res | Hi-Res
JPAU19JAN05PC016 Sappers of the Australian Army 23rd Operations Support Squadron, Darwin, dig a drainage ditch in an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. (Date taken: 19 January 2005) Low-Res | Hi-Res	JPAU19JAN05PC019 Sapper Stuart Rokahr from the Australian Army 23rd Operations Support Squadron, Darwin, digs a drainage ditch in an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. (Date taken: 19 January 2005) Low-Res | Hi-Res
JPAU19JAN05PC022 Australian Army officer Major Matt Grant talks with children in an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. (Date taken: 19 January 2005) Low-Res | Hi-Res	JPAU19JAN05PC033 Sapper Stuart Rokahr from the Australian Army 23rd Operations Support Squadron, Darwin, digs a drainage ditch in an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. (Date taken: 19 January 2005) Low-Res | Hi-Res
JPAU19JAN05PC036 Sapper Robert Filla from the Australian Army 23rd Operations Support Squadron, Darwin, digs a drainage ditch in an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. (Date taken: 19 January 2005) Low-Res | Hi-Res	JPAU19JAN05PC041 Corporal John Humphries (right) from the Australian Army 2nd Health Support Battalion, Brisbane, explains how to use a mosquito repellent spray backpack, so that local contractors can control mosquitos at an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. (Date taken: 19 January 2005) Low-Res | Hi-Res
JPAU19JAN05PC042 Corporal John Humphries (right) from the Australian Army 2nd Health Support Battalion, Brisbane, explains how to use a mosquito repellent spray backpack, so that local contractors can control mosquitos at an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Banda Aceh. (Date taken: 19 January 2005) Low-Res | Hi-Res	JPAU19JAN05PC057 Sapper Scott Rogers from the Australian Army 1st Combat Engineer Regiment, Darwin, measures wood for construction of a camp for Internally Displaced Persons in Banda Aceh, in Indonesia. (Date taken: 19 January 2005) Low-Res | Hi-Res
JPAU19JAN05PC062 Lance Corporal Daniel Thorne from the Australian Army 1st Combat Engineer Regiment Darwin, cuts timber for construction in an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. (Date taken: 19 January 2005) Low-Res | Hi-Res