Reconsidering Ladia Galaska
Three ministers failed to reach agreement on the project, yet it is going ahead without involving the Leuser Development Program.
January 6, 2004
AFTER the flooding which devastated the tourist resort of Bohorok in northern Sumatra one Sunday night in November last year, media attention is once again drawn to Ladia Galaska, a highway project that will link Gayo-Alas on the east coast facing the Indian Ocean and areas on the west coast on the Straits of Malacca in northern Sumatra. Revised several times, the project envisages the building of a trans-island highway that will extend for 1,659
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