Back from his first trip to Aceh since he was made head of the Government's new reconstruction agency, Kuntoro Mangkusubroto said he was shocked to find some people were still not getting regular food and angry that the Government had yet to release some of the $A800 million allocated for reconstruction.
[...] One deal he had signed with a consortium led by the Intel Corp company would make Aceh the first province in Indonesia to have broadband access.
Another article, also from the Sydney Morning Herald:
The international medical relief agency Médecins sans Frontières is tracking down hundreds of thousands of donors worldwide to its Asian tsunami appeal and offering them their money back.
Hundreds of Australians have asked for $93,000 of refunds after the charity told them it had four times the €20 million it needed to fund its response to the Boxing Day disaster.
They refused the charity's offer to redirect their donations to lower profile crises such as in Sudan or the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Posted by phreq at May 11, 2005 07:47 AM | TrackBack"They refused the charity's offer to redirect their donations"
Sometimes, people suck.
Posted by: Rachel at May 11, 2005 04:10 PMYeah. 'Cos obviously, Sudanese and Congolese have brought their troubles upon themselves, whereas the tsunami victims were smited by God, or Nature, which is entirely different!