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Joshua Kevin · · 2 min read

Indonesia Turns to an App to Help Japan Recovery

Indonesia, a victim of the earthquake and tsunami itself back in 2004 at Aceh, didn’t turn their head away from what happened recently in Japan.

While most of the Indonesian tweeted #prayforjapan and changed their Blackberry Messenger picture in support of that, Elasitas – one of the oldest and biggest software and application house in Indonesia – launched an application called IDforJapan. For your information, BlackBerry is the most popular smartphone in Indonesia.

IDforJapan is a Blackberry application that is built to help and support Japan Earthquake Tsunami Relief. As to why a Blackberry app, we can refer you to this post. Indonesians can receive news about Japan and donate money through the application. The proceed will go to the Indonesian Red Cross or ‘Palang Merah Indonesia’ in Indonesian for Japan relief works.

If you’re in Indonesia and would like to help please download the app here and follow @IDForJapan on Twitter

Thousands of lives were lost in the recent Japan’s Earthquake and Tsunami disaster. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese people’s daily life have been affected. Drinking water, food, and gas are also lacking.

The world is saddened by the disaster and is going all out to help Japan. Japan’s Prime Minister said that this is the worst disaster that ever happened to them after World War 2.

Apple, Google and a Japan-based entertainment solutions company, MotionPotrait have been doing their best to help Japan. Apple rolled out its donation campaign and supported the Songs for Japan on iTunes. Google  launched the person finder engine for Japanese, while MotionPotrait donated its sales generated from 12 iPhone apps.

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Joshua Kevin

Joshua Kevin is passionate about tech startups, entrepreneurship and social media. Currently he is actively involved in Indonesia startup scene as a proud writer for TechinAsia. Follow him on Twitter and LinkedIn.