People who don't help themselves...

In Indonesia, a country of 230 million people, they apparently "do not have expertise" to maintain a tsunami detection system which was put in place after the 2004 catastrophe: Locals were given no indication of the coming wave because an early-warning system put in place after the devastating 2004 tsunami has stopped working. Fauzi, the head of Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysic Agency, told the Associated Press that the system began to malfunction last year, and was completely inoperative by last month. "We do not have the expertise to monitor the buoys to function as intended," he said. There's just no excuse for this incompetence. Over the course of 6 years, a country with a population of 230 million has been unable to acquire equipment and train people to run a crucial early warning system? After they received the help to put it in place from countries like Germany, China, France, and the US? What a waste of help. Every cent misplaced by helpi