THE BRR-Nias hopes more funding will be allocated in 2009 from locally-sourced revenues for the maintenance of infrastructures it built after the quake and tsunami in 2004.

“As it is now, funding for development of areas like Nias is still inadequate,” says BRR-Nias chief, William P. Sabandar, at his office in Gunung Sitoli on Tuesday last week.

BRR has asked the central government to increase funding from public revenue for 2009 to the a