IOC donates US$2m for Aceh sports program

JAKARTA: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has allocated a donation of US$2 million to help renovate sports facilities in Aceh and North Sumatra after the devastating tsunami on Dec. 26, 2004, according to Indonesian Sports Council (KONI).

"We will have to submit the action-plan program soon for the donation to be disbursed," KONI chairman Agum Gumelar said here on Friday.

The financial pledge was made during a meeting between KONI and IOC President Jacque Rogge in Lausanne, Switzerland on Monday and Tuesday.

Agum said that KONI and its Aceh and North Sumatra subordinates would coordinate with the Aceh Reconstruction Agency, headed by Kuntoro Mangkusubroto. (004)