PANGANDARAN, Indonesia, July, 2006 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Most fishermen in the Indonesian town of Ciamis have lost their fishing boats in the tsunami that swept through the southern Java coasts Monday, the fishermen association said Friday.
"The tsunami has destroyed about 95 percent of 7,200 fishing boats in Ciamis," said Jeje Wiradinata, chairman of the Ciamis fishermen association.
The damages have inflicted a loss of an estimated 272 billion rupiah (about 29.6 million U.S. dollars) to Ciamis fishermen, he said at the Pangandaran resort beach in Ciamis.
Wiradinata said there are about 15,000 fishermen in Ciamis, which bore the brunt of Monday's tsunami that killed over 550 people.