AFP Indonesia quake reconstruction cost put at more than $3 billion by Marianne Kearney Tue Jun 13, 11:01 AM ET JAKARTA (AFP) - Rebuilding Indonesia's quake-hit central Java will cost more than three billion dollars, with the scale of residential destruction rivalling that of the tsunami in Aceh. A senior official from the State Planning and Development Agency said a preliminary government assessment of quake damage found that it would become one of Asia's most costly disasters in recent times.

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