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--------------------------------------------------------------------- http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050515/ap_on_re_as/tsunami_stalled_rebuilding_5 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tsunami Rebuilding Effort Stalls By MICHAEL CASEY, Associated Press Writer DEAH GEULUMPANG, Indonesia - Political squabbling, donor demands and government indecision have stalled the building of roads, water treatment plants and nearly 180,000 homes for survivors of last December's tsunami. Aid agencies, which plan to spend more than $7 billion on tsunami relief across the Indian Ocean basin, have put massive building projects on hold while waiting for Indonesian authorities to come up with a solid plan. Only now, nearly five months later, are concrete reconstruction agreements being signed. Meanwhile, survivors along the battered coasts of Aceh province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra have largely been left to fend for themselves while wondering whether they will rebuild their old homes and revive the fishing industry, their main livelihood. "People are coming back here to nothing," said Herman Hasbalah, a 33-year-old village leader from Deah Geulumpang, where returning survivors sleep in a damaged coffee house and crowded tents. "The government hasn't done anything and people are getting frustrated and angry," he said. The earthquake and tsunami killed more than 180,000 people in 11 countries, and left about 50,000 missing and hundreds of thousands homeless. But the massive international relief effort that followed was credited with averting a health and food disaster. Now the aid groups that were at the front lines of the relief effort are waiting for the government to provide guidelines for building clinics, schools, homes and roads in Aceh. "We have not done any reconstruction. We cannot do it without a plan," Holger Leipe, head of International red Cross operations in Aceh, said in an interview. "If we put up a building and later it's pulled down, it would be a waste of donors' money," Leipe said. "To get it right, we have to have everyone on board." The first sign of trouble was the government's master plan, released in February to criticism from Acehnese leaders for ignoring their input and barring reconstruction along the coast. An amended draft released a month later was largely without specifics. The government also set out to establish an agency to oversee the four-year, $4.8 billion reconstruction project. But with at least three ministries fighting for a say in the new body, it was not until April 30 that former Energy Minister Kuntoro Mangkusubroto was appointed to run it. "It's shocking," Kuntoro told a news conference on May 9. "There are no roads being built, there are no bridges being built, there are no harbors being built. When it comes to reconstruction � zero." The government says the delay is due partly to the magnitude of the task � rebuilding 179,000 houses and dozens of bridges and major roads that crisscross the province � and the need to involve the local community in planning. It also accuses some donors of setting overly strict conditions. It says donors have refused to release any aid until the government provides a detailed reconstruction blueprint and anti-corruption mechanism. "Donors want to help but then they say they don't want this help to be corrupted," Planning Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati told The Associated Press. "The president assured them a system that includes monitoring and oversight would be established, but it has taken time to design." Along Aceh's coast, life is slowly returning to the desolate landscape. Aid agencies have started building temporary homes and small shops sell fresh vegetables, packaged noodles and water. The reopened coastal highway is crowded with army vehicles, families on motorbikes and trucks delivering supplies. This month, the government signed the first of a series of agreements paving the way for agencies to start more permanent rebuilding. The Red Cross has agreed to spend $600 million to build 22,500 homes, 110 clinics and 110 schools. The U.S. Agency for International Development will spend $245 million to rebuild a major road starting in July. Indonesia and foreign donors agreed Tuesday to spend $250 million to build 20,000 homes, repair roads and bridges, and set up a system to recover lost land records. Still, many of these projects are weeks away from starting. Meanwhile the landscape � vast stretches of emptiness broken only by the occasional standing wall or coconut tree � has changed little. --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.todayonline.com/articles/50300.asp --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tsunami aid stranded at docks Bureaucratic bungling, incomplete paperwork blamed HUNDREDS of containers of aid for tsunami victims were stranded at ports in Indonesia and Sri Lanka because of bureaucratic bungling and missing paperwork, five months after the disaster, according to a report yesterday. Speaking to reporters in Singapore on Tuesday, United States Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick sought to dispel perceptions that post-tsunami rebuilding in Aceh province was behind schedule and that donated funds were not properly channelled for their intended purpose. However, the Financial Times (FT), quoting customs records, reported yesterday that 1,500 containers of aid were stacked at the Indonesian port of Medan, with 599 of the units unclaimed or needing import permits. And as many as 500 containers, equivalent to a quarter of all aid shipped to Sri Lanka after the Boxing Day tragedy, are on the dockside in Colombo, the newspaper reported. With a lot of the aid, including containers sent by international companies, stranded on docksides, coordination of the relief work is again being questioned, FT said. The problems underscored the repeated plea of aid agencies for private donors to send cash rather than unsolicited goods, Mr Gert Venghaus, tsunami operations coordinator for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, told FT. The difficulties faced by aid agencies have also increased concern among donors about the internationally-funded reconstruction efforts being launched by Indonesia and other countries. In Sri Lanka, officials say most of the containers are stranded in Colombo because of missing paperwork and bureaucracy. Local distribution agencies have also been overwhelmed by the flow of aid. At Medan, containers have been languishing since January, even though survivors in nearby Aceh are calling for more assistance, FT reported. Customs officials were quoted as saying that a 40ft container of "Lemon Squidgit" and other soap sent in January by Soapworks, a Scottish subsidiary of The Body Shop group, has been stuck at the port because of incomplete paperwork. And eight 20-ft containers of drinking water sent by Diageo's Australasian division at the end of January remain in Medan because the Red Cross lost the paperwork. Merlin, a UK-based medical aid group, said it had faced "bureaucratic delays involving several ministries" in its efforts to import three four-wheel-drive vehicles that arrived at Medan on Feb 7 and remain stuck there. Indonesian customs officials say dozens of vehicles destined for Aceh province are still awaiting import permits. Fourteen ambulances recently sent to Indonesia by Unicef, the United Nations children's agency, took two months to clear customs. Speaking to newsmen in Singapore, Mr Zoellick said the people of Aceh were nonetheless going about rebuilding their shattered lives with purpose. Mr Zoellick said a US$900-million (about $1.5 billion) aid package was being prepared by US officials to help Indonesia's post-tsunami reconstruction efforts. He did not mention the problem of red tape hampering the aid efforts. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Has someone you know been affected by illness or disease? 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