Ladia Galaska: Aceh's Highway to Hell

The construction of the trans-Aceh highway will cause grave damage to the Leuser area. The environment minister fears the world's richest tropical forest is headed towards extinction.

July 30, 2002

Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam provincial administration is undertaking a to implement major project, one that has nothing to do with the Free Aceh Movement or the like. It is the construction of a highway worth Rp1.5 trillion along the Indian Ocean - Gayo Alas _ Malacca Straits route. The project is called Ladia Galaska, an acronym made up of the three names. The Ladia project was begun in the mid-1980s when Ibrahim Hasan was the province's governo

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