Foreign Assistance Draws Few Complaints in Aceh
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Ali, a scruffy Acehnese truck driver turned tsunami refugee, said he wasn't sure who provided him with a sack of rice, bottled water, blanket and a few other meager provisions, just that they were foreigners.
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More than 25,000 families are still homeless in the Indonesian province of Aceh, nearly two years on from the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, a leading aid agency said.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- The United Nations lifted a travel ban yesterday on aid workers in Indonesia's tsunami-battered Aceh province, the scene of a decades-long conflict between rebels and government forces that has raised concerns about the safety of relief efforts.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Aid groups, foreign  armies and Indonesian officials have prevented disease and  starvation from engulfing tsunami-hit Aceh province, but closer  cooperation is needed to rebuild shattered livelihoods,  government and aid officials said.
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A state of civil emergency in the rebellion-hit Indonesian province of Aceh has been formally extended by six month, as the country's president pledged to end violence there without foreign help.
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Rebels in Indonesia's Aceh Province said that the group's top leadership had issued orders not to harm any aid workers.
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Relief organizations said a new demand made by Indonesia on Thursday that foreign aid workers have army escorts in tsunami-stricken Aceh province will hamper aid delivery and blur the lines between the military and humanitarian efforts.
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Aid trickled in to the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday after a deadly quake but survivors said they still lacked food, water and shelter -- echoing criticism after past disasters.
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U.S. helicopters shuttled injured refugees, many of them children, out of some of the worst hit parts of tsunami-devastated Aceh province, even as reports surfaced of trafficking in orphans from the disaster.
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Prospects for peace in Indonesia's war-torn and tsunami-hit Aceh province were lifted by an offer of talks from separatist rebels, but tensions continued to overshadow efforts to aid disaster victims.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The head of the U.N.  Children's Fund said there were probably fewer orphans than  originally thought in Asia's tsunami-hit areas, and efforts  should be directed toward uniting children with family members.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia told aid  workers helping tsunami victims in its worst-hit region Aceh on  Tuesday not to venture beyond two large cities on Sumatra  island because of possible attack by militants.
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The Indonesian press looks at the aid summit under way in Jakarta.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Aid agencies have  prevented disease spreading through Indonesia's  tsunami-stricken Aceh, but the threat remained strong, the  United Nations said Friday as doctors reported children dying  from pneumonia.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia said on  Thursday restrictions on aid workers in Aceh were for their own  safety in a province troubled by a decades-old insurgency, and  voiced readiness to sit down with the rebels to seek a  cease-fire.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Accusations flying  between the Indonesian military and rebels in tsunami-ravaged  Aceh province clouded prospects for recovery as aid workers on  Saturday began to switch their focus from relief to rebuilding.
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Three years after the disaster, normality is creeping back in Banda Aceh, but the underlying economy hasn't yet healed