Indonesian Province Begins Anew
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A week after a tsunami devastated the western end of Sumatra island,  markets are reopening, power and water are being restored to nearly half the city and a fuel shortage has been brought to an end.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Substantial help finally  began reaching refugees in Indonesia's devastated Aceh province  on Saturday, and the U.S. military arrived in force to speed  the flow of critically needed aid.
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In Indonesia, campaigning is has ended, and the country begins a three-day reflection period prior to Monday&#39;s presidential run-off election.
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JAKARTA - Indonesians have begun voting in a historic presidential ballot. It will mark the first direct election of a president in the world&#39;s largest Muslim nation.
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For hajj pilgrims returning from the once in a lifetime trip to the holy city of Mecca, arriving back home in this staunchly Muslim Indonesian province of Aceh should have been a proud and happy occasion. It was anything but for Nurasyirah.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesian schoolchildren  wept and prayed for thousands of missing classmates as  debris-littered schools reopened in devastated Aceh province on  Wednesday, a month after the Asian tsunami.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Many desperate families  in Indonesia's Aceh province are turning to traditional magic  men to learn the fate of loved ones still missing more than six  weeks after the Asian tsunami.
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Aceh, the isolated Indonesian province  that accounts for more than half of the known deaths from last  week's earthquake and tsunami, is no stranger to tragedy, and  some believe this latest one may help end another.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- A former rebel leader appeared headed to easy victory yesterday in the first elections in Aceh Province since the government and the separatists signed a peace deal in the tsunami-ravaged region last year.
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From the remote jungles of Papua to the sky-scrapers of Jakarta, Indonesia is staging landmark elections which will see the vast Southeast Asian archipelago choose its president for the first time.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Voters hungry for change are expected today to do what was unthinkable during Indonesia's three decades of authoritarian rule -- toss out an incumbent president and vote in a political newcomer who has promised to crack down on corruption and revive the battered economy.
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MEUNASAH BAK'U, Indonesia  - Teungku Sobirin lost his seven children and home to the tsunami that devastated Indonesia's Aceh province two years ago, but he believes there was a lesson in it for the war-weary province.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Help finally came from  the sky on Sunday for Indonesian villages in an area washed  flat by the tsunami a week ago, but it grew clearer no amount  of aid could stop more loss of life throughout the disaster  zone.
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In Aceh, Indonesia, the decision about where to resettle must be made at the intersection of natural calamity and civil war.
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Successful democratic elections are an encouraging indicator of lasting peace in the formerly restive Indonesian province. But a strong showing by former rebels means Jakarta may still have some bridges to mend
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Schools in the Indonesian province of Aceh have reopened for the first time since an earthquake and tsunami devastated the region one month ago.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Signs grew on Thursday  that towns and villages on the battered shores of the Indian  Ocean were beginning to recover from the tsunami which all but  swept them off the map.