BRR inaugurates new houses in Aceh

BRR inaugurates new houses in Aceh

BANDA ACEH: Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency for Aceh and
Nias (BRR) chairman Kuntoro Mangkusubroto officially opened a
scheme of 45 new houses for tsunami survivors on Friday.

"Sixty houses will be built in the Lamnyong area, Syiah Kuala
subdistrict, Banda Aceh, by the International Organization for
Migration (IOM). Forty five of these have been completed,"
Kuntoro said.

The Dec. 26 tsunami devastated coastal areas of Aceh, where
over 131,000 people were killed and nearly half a million people
made homeless.

The government set up the BRR last April to oversee the
rehabilitation and reconstruction work in Aceh, and manage the
huge reconstruction funds, much of which were provided by
overseas donors.

According to Kuntoro, the BRR has so far constructed some
10,000 houses in Aceh and on Nias Island. He added that the
agency was also overseeing housing construction projects being
carried out by non-governmental organizations, which plan to
build some 72,000 new dwellings. -- Antara