Time for a serious post. The following report, whilst not claiming widespread disruption of aid delivery given the GAM-Government conflict, does highlight cases of exhortation and reallocation (theft) of resources by military actors in Aceh. Examples include the armed forces taking water and probably on-selling it, middleman maintaining monopolies under the protection of the military, and aid-workers being asked to do work for the paramilitary and if they don’t, being asked to leave.
Conflict and the aid effort – sample testimonies from the field (26 kbytes)
Number of articles in today’s (27 Sept 05) Jakarta post mentioning corruption in the headline: 5
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