I don't think it is the right situation to think about whether Western people are stingy or not or whether muslims should give money to muslims. (And certainly let's not talk about the Indonesian or even Thai government.)

90% of us here at Pet Talk are incredibly rich compared with the people who lost their families and their living in the flooded areas. They have been very hard working people and considered it as a luck to have the tourists- a very important business over there.

Now it will take time until tourism can be revived and the people who live there have lost anything they had - and even the means with which they could earn their living.

A story from Bali: I asked a driver whether his car belonged to him. No he said, the car belonged to his three cousins. After school, he had started helping them by washing the car and learning to repair it. Then his elder sister approached him and said: "You cannot continue like this, you need a better education. I'll pay for your driving licence and then you can be a driver and not just a handy boy." So she did and her brother climbed the next step on the ladder. Now it is his turn to pay for the education of his younger brother. This is a standard story and in many of these countries the chain is now terribly broken.

Whoever has not planned to donate: Please consider again. Even a few Dollars or Euros make a difference.