First Steps towards Rebuilding

The government's principal plan for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Aceh and Nias is a long-term building project. But the Acehnese themselves have acted faster.

April 5, 2005

IT has taken the government several months, but the hard work of putting together a master plan for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Aceh and North Sumatra's offshore island of Nias is finally finished. Precisely three months after the region was smashed to smithereens by a tsunami, Vice President Jusuf Kalla unveiled the plan to the people of Aceh on March 26. It was not final of course, because the people in those two regions are to

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