Liliputians and Giant Projects

Local brick-making plants support the post-tsunami physical development and set the wheels of the peoples economy turning.

December 27, 2005

ISACH Wahyu Zulfikar cannot hide his feelings of pride. Now we have seven brick plants in Aceh, says the material engineering graduate of the Bandung Institute of Technology. Being coordinator of a business unit belonging to Uplink, an NGO, Isach deserves to be happy. Starting from a training workshop with simple tools, his business is flourishing in only three months.

The first Uplink brick plant was set up last September at Lam Isek village, Peu

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