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Summary of achievements On Boxing Day, 2004, an earthquake centred in the Indian Ocean and measuring between 9.1 and 9.3 on the Richter scale – the second largest earthquake ever… Read more »
Publication Date：12/08/2006 Section：Front Page By Edwin Hsiao A supervisory delegation from Taiwan inspected the progress of reconstruction work in several sites of tsunami-stricken Sri Lanka and Indonesia Nov. 28-Dec. 2,… Read more »
ACT Dateline, Indonesia 11/06 Carpenter builds again for his family’s future By Lesvi Roselim, ACT International Hilina’a village, Nias, November 13, 2006–The sound of wood-cutting machines echoes in the air… Read more »
Apriadi Gunawan, The Jakarta Post, Medan Donor agencies, international organizations and the body in charge of rebuilding Aceh and Nias promised Wednesday to ensure public accountability and to make it… Read more »
By Bill Guerin JAKARTA – The outpouring of foreign aid and donations to Indonesia in the wake of the December 2004 tsunami is being pilfered by corrupt government officials and… Read more »
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has opened the first two of nearly 370 permanent schools it has agreed to build in Indonesia in a $90-million project to replace those… Read more »
Ridwan Max Sijabat, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Anticorruption watchdogs are urging an exhaustive probe of possible irregularities in rebuilding projects at the Aceh and Nias Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency (BRR)…. Read more »
ADB has signed agreements with five international organizations to accelerate its program to build houses in earthquake and tsunami affected Aceh and Nias. Housing remains a top priority for the… Read more »
Adisti Sukma Sawitri, The Jakarta Post, Depok NGO activists are treating reconstruction projects as “battlefields” to compete for donor funding and misuse it for their own benefit, leaving locals to… Read more »
International institutions may laud the BRR Aceh-Nias performance (read this news), but in Nias, BRR has started losing people’s support, according to SIB newspaper report (16/08/06). The way BRR handles… Read more »
Following the successful completion of 520 shelters on the island of Nias, which had been affected by the 28th of March 2005 earthquake, ACTED is now moving on to a… Read more »
Friday, July 14, 2006 M. Taufiqurrahman, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The European Union and the World Bank praised Thursday progress in the reconstruction of tsunami-hit Aceh, terming it superior to… Read more »
Wednesday, July 12, 2006 JAKARTA: The Aceh-Nias Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency (BRR) should openly clarify its recent decision to dismiss employees Leo Nugroho and Endang Yuliarti, non-governmental organizations said here… Read more »
ELCA NEWS SERVICE – July 3, 2006 Lutherans and Muslims Assess Tsunami Relief, Plan Cooperation 06-093-FI MEDAN, Indonesia (ELCA) — The earthquake and tsunami of December 2004 was centered off… Read more »
*This will include $10 million to establish a Nias Reconstruction Program Indonesian and Australian Joint Commission Ministers today (29 June 2006) announced $63 million of additional development assistance to Indonesia,… Read more »