One Road, Many Controversies
August 24, 2004
GOVERNOR Abdullah Puteh has a joke. Fish caught by fishermen from waters in the Indian Ocean, he says, would come to life on arrival for sale in Takengon in Central Aceh. Its not the fish that come to, but the maggots squirming in the bodies of the fish which decompose after so long a journey, Puteh adds with a laugh. The governor is determined to carry on what his predecessor has done: breaking the isolation of Takengon with the construction of
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