1. REFUGEE: 12 x 4 lines
1. REFUGEE: 12 x 4 lines
Hungry refugees
picket
governor's
office
Hundreds of hungry East Timorese refugees thronged the East Nusa
Tenggara (NTT) governor's office compound on Saturday to protest
the government's unilateral decision to stop providing
humanitarian aid.
Crying for food, the visibly impoverished refugees arrived at
the compound at 10:30 a.m. in three trucks and a bus. Some of
them rode motorcycles.
"We are hungry. We ask for food. We will stay here until the
government gives aid (to us)," they yelled.
2. AGUS: 28 x 2 lines
Central Java faces water crisis,
rice fields most at risk
Central Java is facing widespread crop failure as tens of
thousands of hectares of rice fields have run out of water in the
past month.
It was reported that almost all of the 29 regencies have been
suffering from the water crisis, with seven of them -- Cilacap,
Banyumas, Purbalingga, Banjarnegara, Demak, Rembang and Kebumen
-- worst hit.
"We have received letters of request from many subdistricts
for clean water, and we've been trying to meet their demands,"
one member of staff at Cilacap regency administration said over
the weekend.
3. ACEH: 32 x 1 line
Eight more die in Aceh violence
Eight people were killed in a series of violence incidents in
Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam province over the weekend, the military
and the GAM separatist group both said on Sunday.
In the latest incident, the military said suspected members of
the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) ambushed a car carrying
soldiers, killing a junior military officer.
"A local military subdistrict chief, Capt. Chairul Aqsa, and
six of his men were riding in a van on Sunday when 15 armed men
ambushed them in Alue Ketapang, North Aceh," said Indonesian
Military (TNI) spokesman in the troubled province Maj. Zaenal
Muttaqin.
4. HELI: 32 x 1 line
Two survive chopper accident in Papua
Two of the five military officers on board a missing military
helicopter at the remote Paniai regency in Timika, Papua
province, were found alive on Sunday, after they had managed to
reach the nearest Kobae village, some two-hour walk from the
crash site, Antara reported.
Spokesman of the Trikora Reginal Military Command, overseeing
the province, Maj. G.P. Situmorang said the two -- identified as
First Lt. Ikhwan and First Lt. Tedy -- were suffering serious
injuries, while the fate of the other three Army officers,
including the ruin of Army's Bell BO-205, remained unclear.
"Since we lost contact with the helicopter, we have started
searching for its passengers and the exact location where it had
crashed.
"But, we are yet bale to detect it," Situmorang said, adding
that the Army, along with National Search and Rescue Agency
(Basarnas), would continue to search them on Monday.