Pictures from Aceh

02 January 2005

German online magazine Spiegel online shows some impressing satellite pictures of Banda Aceh
before and after the quake/tsunami:

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,grossbild-421851-335175,00.html

QuickBird Imagery – Tsunami Aftermath: Banda Aceh

More than 600 pictures from Aceh by Reuters and AP agencies can be seen at:

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=aceh%3F&ei=UTF-8&c=images&b=1

Posted on 09:43 AM in "In the Spotlight", Aceh, Disasters, Indonesia, Publications, Environment & Climate
Tags: Aceh, Indonesia, disasters, tsunami

(Deutsch) Es ist mehr als nur Nothilfe nötig

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German version

Posted on 04:26 PM in Disasters, Economy, Labor & Corruption, Indonesia, Publications, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: Aceh, German-Indonesian relations, humanitarian aid, Indonesia, intervention and peace keeping, disasters, tsunami, arms trade

Situation in Aceh on December 29th, 2004, according to information provided by the environmental organisation WALHI

December 29, 2004

The telecommunication system in Aceh has been down over the last days. Since this afternoon it is once more possible to obtain news directly from Aceh by phone.

WALHI Aceh has lost its director, Mohammad Ibrahim. We are mourning his death.

Only one of the 34 WALHI groups in Aceh could be contacted so far (YBA, Yayasan Biduk Alam in East Aceh).

For two days now, an Indonesian team from the Civil Society Coalition for the Victims of the Earthquake ... read more

Posted on 02:52 PM in Disasters, Indonesia, Information and Analysis, Publications, Environment & Climate
Tags: Aceh, humanitarian aid, Indonesia, disasters, tsunami

(Deutsch) Aceh akzeptiert Hilfe – aber die kommt nicht an

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German version

Posted on 12:54 PM in Aceh, Indonesia, Publications, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: Aceh, humanitarian aid, Indonesia, disasters, tsunami

(Deutsch) Friedenshoffnungen über Trümmern

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Posted on 02:15 PM in Aceh, Indonesia, Publications, Regional Conflicts, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: Aceh, Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM), Indonesia, disasters, conflict resolution, military, regional conflicts, tsunami, independence

More than 27,000 dead and the death toll still rising – Tsunami in Indonesia

28 December 2004

by Alex Flor

The earth quake that struck on Sunday was the biggest of its kind during the last 40 years. Its epicentre was located 150 km off the South-western coastline of the Indonesian province of Aceh. The tidal wave which was triggered by the quake took the life of tens of thousands in the coastal regions of twelve Asian and African states.

The death toll is still rising by the hour. On Sunday, the day of the ... read more

Posted on 10:53 AM in Aceh, Indonesia, Information and Analysis, Publications
Tags: Aceh, Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM), humanitarian aid, Indonesia, disasters, conflict resolution, military, tsunami

Indonesia: Flood tragedy in Sumatra on account of road project

World Rainforest Movement – WRM Bulletin 77, December 2003

International Secretariat Maldonado 1858; Montevideo, Uruguay
E-Mail: wrm@wrm.org.uy
Web page: http://www.wrm.org.uy

Editor: Ricardo Carrere

With more than a year into its construction, the controversial US$1.2 million Ladia Galaska road network project will link the west coast of Aceh with the eastern coast of northern Sumatra. Over 90 kilometers out of the planned 505-kilometer-long road cuts through the relatively pristine forest of the central highlands at the Leuser ... read more

Posted on 02:25 PM in Aceh, Disasters, Indonesia, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: Aceh, illegal logging, Indonesia, disasters, rain forest destruction, environment and climate

Walhi Demands A Halt To Freeport Mine Operations

WALHI press release, October 11, 2003

Friends of the Earth Indonesia, (WALHI) demands the government halt operations at the Grasberg mine (known as Freeport) following a disastrous landslide on Thursday morning 9 October 2003. The Grasberg mine in West Papua is jointly owned by USA-based Freeport McMoran and UK/Australian mining company Rio Tinto Ltd.

“This event proves Freeport is not competent to handle the current high level of mining production. The government must immediately enforce a reduction in the Freeport production capacity” ... read more

Posted on 04:29 PM in Disasters, Indonesia, Mining, Environment & Climate
Tags: mining, Indonesia, disasters, Papua, government, environment and climate