Lombok NGOs re-registered

MATARAM, West Nusa Tenggara: The provincial administration plans to re-register local non-governmental organizations as ordered by the minister of home affairs.

"There are approximately 200 NGOs in the province but only 50 have registered with the government," the head of the province's social and political affairs department, Pattikae, said last week.

According to Pattikae, NGOs which fail to register are not recognized by the government.

"Thus far no local NGO has made any trouble," he added.

A local unit of the unrecognized Independent Election Monitoring Committee recently established is not considered a troublemaker, Pattikae said, without elaborating. (14)