ACCORDING to reports from Banda Aceh last week, the 2007 Aceh Budget missed its target of reducing the number of poor and bringing down unemployment levels. The Draft Regional Budget quota being offered was as much as Rp4 trillion.

According to the head of the Aceh Provincial Planning and Development Board (Bappeda), Prof Dr Abdurrahman Lubis MSc, out of the 4.2 million people in Aceh, more than 40 percentor around 1.6 million peopleare categorize