Maluku refugees to get aid

Maluku refugees to get aid

AMBON, Maluku: Acting Maluku Governor Sinyo Sarundajang has
ordered the distribution of construction materials to allow
victims of the ethnic conflict there to rebuild their homes.

Syarif Hadler, deputy mayor of Ambon municipality, said in the
Maluku capital on Wednesday the order followed a report that some
former refugees were anxious lest they be denied their Rp 10
million in construction material because of a lack of land
ownership documents.

Two former warring communities in Nania village, Baguala
district, Ambon municipality, for instance, have reconciled and
wish to live peacefully, but most of the community members do not
have ownership certificates for the land where they want to build
houses.

"The deputy governor has ordered the social affairs office in
Ambon to announce this policy to avoid any unrest among refugees
who are going back to their home villages," he said

Quoting Sarundajang, Hadler said that despite a lack of land
certificates, the refugees would be given the opportunity to find
plots of land, and the local administration would arrange their
settlement in an effort to resolve the refuge problem by the end
of this year. --Antara