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PKS launches aid committee for Aceh
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PKS launches aid
committee for Aceh

JAKARTA: The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) has launched a
humanitarian committee for Aceh to help survivors of the
earthquake and tsunami in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and North
Sumatra.

Committee chairman Soeripto said on Sunday that PKS supporters
were used to conducting charity events and organizations.

"PKS believes that the government is capable of handling the
disaster but the damage caused by it are too big, therefore, help
from outsiders is badly needed," PKS chairman Tifatul Sembiring
said.

He said the committee has so far sent 900 volunteers to Aceh
and would deploy 1,100 others in two weeks. --Antara.

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Jakarta to take over
prosecutor's offices

JAKARTA: The central government will take over the legal
authority and duties of prosecutor's offices in Nanggroe Aceh
Darussalam and in Nias regency, North Sumatra, which were
destroyed by the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami, an official
said.

Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh said the decision was made
by the government in a recent Cabinet meeting.

"The calamity has destroyed buildings of many prosecutor's
offices in Aceh and Nias, including documents, and killed a
number of prosecutors and staff members," he said on Friday.

However, Rahman said he has yet to make any decisions
regarding the case, including the possibility of moving the
damaged Aceh prosecutor's offices to North Sumatra.

Attorney General spokesman RJ Soehandoyo said the office
recorded as many as 40 prosecutors and staff members were among
those killed in Banda Aceh alone during the catastrophe.

Deaths of prosecutors and employees of attorney offices in
other districts in the province were yet to be reported, he said.
--JP