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		<title>Govt, MDF launches final rehab projects in Nias</title>
		<link>http://niasonline.net/2010/07/31/govt-mdf-launches-final-rehab-projects-in-nias/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nias, North Sumatra &#8211; Five years after the magnitude-8.8 earthquake that devastated the North Sumatra island of Nias, the central government and Multi Donor Fund of the World Bank launched Friday their last three projects on rehabilitation and reconstruction program in the area. The projects, worth US$24 million, comprise Nias Islands Transition Project, Nias Islands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vacancy as Community Health Coordination</title>
		<link>http://niasonline.net/2010/03/31/vacancy-as-community-health-coordination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medical Teams International is a non-profit organization, which serves to bring aid and medical care to those in need worldwide. We are looking for people who are skilled, passionate, determined and experienced for the positions below: Community Health Coordinator (Code: CHC) Duty station: Nias Selatan She/He will supervise the Health Facilitators and will plan and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rabies declared endemic in Nias Island</title>
		<link>http://niasonline.net/2010/03/14/rabies-declared-endemic-in-nias-island/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jakarta Post &#124; Tue, 03/09/2010 3:46 PM &#124; National North Sumatra Animal Husbandry Agency head Teti Erlina Lubis said Tuesday that she had declared rabies endemic in Nias Island following the recent death of a local health agency head due to a bite from a rabies-infected dog. North Nias health agency chairman Christian Zai [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nias demands self-governance</title>
		<link>http://niasonline.net/2010/02/21/nias-demands-self-governance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four regencies and a mayoralty in Nias Islands have agreed to go ahead with their aspiration to set up an autonomous province separated from North Sumatra mainland. The five are Nias regency, South Nias, North Nias, West Nias and Gunung Sitoli mayoralty. North Sumatra provincial secretary R.E. Nainggolan said the provincial administration had yet to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RCHN-NTU Visits Pulau Nias</title>
		<link>http://niasonline.net/2010/01/14/rchn-ntu-visits-pulau-nias/</link>
		<comments>http://niasonline.net/2010/01/14/rchn-ntu-visits-pulau-nias/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pulau Nias was hit by both Asian Tsunami and Sumatra earthquake in 2004 and 2005 respectively. As part of our official mission trip to Pulau Nias, we had a chance to talk to the locals as they shared their experience on coping with the aftermath of both disasters. Mrs. Niada Telaumbanua, 28 years old, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little things still matter</title>
		<link>http://niasonline.net/2009/12/21/little-things-still-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nias</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reconstruction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[THE modest grey bricked building looks a world away from its counterpart across road, where shiny blue glass panes are framed by freshly scrubbed walls. But look closer and you will see that both are connected. Both, in fact, are major components of Gunungsitoli General Hospital in Nias, an earthquake-prone island off the western coast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nias Statue Smuggling Rethwarted</title>
		<link>http://niasonline.net/2009/11/24/nias-statue-smuggling-rethwarted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MEDAN &#8211; Resort police of Sibolga city again thwarted the illegal selling of Nias tribe megalithic statues. The human shaped statues were about to be sold by someone with initials WE (47) to Medan. The Nias statue selling has occurred repeatedly through land and sea. &#8220;WE confessed that he was just a middle-man, the recipient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOS: Nias Online in the State of Excessive CPU Usage</title>
		<link>http://niasonline.net/2009/10/14/sos-nias-online-in-state-of-excessive-cpu-usage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday (9 October 2009) was a bad day for Nias Online, it was suspended by its host. The reason: Excessive CPU Usage. The warning about excessive CPU usage from the webhost has been sent to the webmaster (more appropriately: webstudent) for 3 -4 of times since 12 November 2008. Perhaps this time the web [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preserving local culture</title>
		<link>http://niasonline.net/2009/10/12/preserving-local-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nias</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://niasonline.net/?p=4626</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nias, an island to the west of Sumatra, is known as home to a living megalithic culture with its iconic hombo batu (stone jumping) tradition portrayed in an Rp 1,000 banknote in the early 1990s. Sorake beach and Lagundri bay are famous among the world&#8217;s best surfing locations. It also has traditional villages like Hilisimaetano, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing hope to poor villagers</title>
		<link>http://niasonline.net/2009/08/27/bringing-hope-to-poor-villagers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of caring Coolum people will head to Indonesia next month to help poor villagers living on the islands of west Sumatra. The nine-strong contingent will provide medical and dental support, improve hygiene via water purification, paint and teach vegetable production. The group will team up with Coolum woman Ruby Senaratne and husband Channa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quake energy has potential to further rattle West Sumatra</title>
		<link>http://niasonline.net/2009/08/18/quake-energy-has-potential-to-further-rattle-west-sumatra/</link>
		<comments>http://niasonline.net/2009/08/18/quake-energy-has-potential-to-further-rattle-west-sumatra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Padang, W Sumatra (ANTARA News) &#8211; A series of aftershocks which rattled West Sumatra province on Sunday and Monday (Aug 16 and 17) followed the quakes which struck the region back in 2007. An earthquake expert of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) Danny Hilman Natawidjaja made the remarks on Monday and reminded the people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indonesia: Toilets and tap stands change lives in Nias</title>
		<link>http://niasonline.net/2009/08/01/indonesia-toilets-and-tap-stands-change-lives-in-nias/</link>
		<comments>http://niasonline.net/2009/08/01/indonesia-toilets-and-tap-stands-change-lives-in-nias/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[*A Red Cross water and sanitation programme on Nias Island is making a dramatic difference to the daily lives of local. By Ahmad Husein, Communications Coordinator, IFRC Jakarta, Indonesia Sabaria Lasse, 49, always looks enthusiastic every time people asking about her new latrine. It is a half brick and wood construction situated behind her house [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medair Closes Indonesia Programme</title>
		<link>http://niasonline.net/2009/07/21/medair-closes-indonesia-programme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indonesia &#8211; After three years of rehabilitation work to provide access to health services, and clean water and sanitation to thousands of people in Aceh Jaya and Nias Island, Medair has now successfully completed its Indonesian programme. In 2006, Medair staff conducted a needs assessment on the west coast of Indonesia’s Aceh Jaya province and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expression of Time in Nias Tradition</title>
		<link>http://niasonline.net/2009/06/08/expression-of-time-in-nias-tradition/</link>
		<comments>http://niasonline.net/2009/06/08/expression-of-time-in-nias-tradition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 30 years ago, before watches and clocks (aralozi / tandra luo) were common things for Nias people, they usually relied on ’pragmatic’ ways to estimate time of day.]]></description>
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		<title>4 Nias Men to Get Aussie Bravery Medals for Chopper Crash Help</title>
		<link>http://niasonline.net/2009/05/23/4-nias-men-to-get-aussie-bravery-medals-for-chopper-crash-help/</link>
		<comments>http://niasonline.net/2009/05/23/4-nias-men-to-get-aussie-bravery-medals-for-chopper-crash-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 04:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four villagers from the island of Nias will receive Australia’s third-highest bravery award for providing assistance to the dying and injured aboard a downed Royal Australian Navy helicopter in 2005, the Australian Embassy in Jakarta said on Friday. Nine Australians aboard the Sea King helicopter were killed and two others seriously injured when it crashed [...]]]></description>
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