ADB commits $81.2m to Indonesia<\/p>\n
Indonesia will get US$81.2 million in loans and grants for clean
\nwater access and sanitation facilities, the Asian Development
\nBank said on Thursday in an e-mailed statement.<\/p>\n
The Manila-based bank said $64.7 million will be in low-
\ninterest loans and another $16.5 million in emergency assistance
\ngrants.<\/p>\n
The loans are targeted at 1,000 communities in 20 districts in
\nthe provinces of West and Central Kalimantan on the Indonesian
\nside of Borneo, as well as Jambi and Bengkulu provinces on
\nSumatra island.<\/p>\n
The project to provide clean water and sanitation will be
\ncompleted by 2011, the bank said.<\/p>\n
Only 15 percent of rural Indonesian households have access to
\npiped water, the bank said in the statement. Relying on
\ngroundwater, rainwater and springs or rivers has resulted in
\nwater-borne diseases, it said.<\/p>\n
Aceh province and Nias island off the coast of North Sumatra
\nwill benefit from the grant to help five districts with 500
\ncommunities, the statement said.<\/p>\n
A Dec. 26 earthquake and ensuing tsunami left more than
\n270,000 people dead or missing in countries from Somalia to
\nIndonesia's Aceh province.<\/p>\n
More than 220,000 of the dead and missing were from Aceh. --
\nBloomberg<\/p>",
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