Singapore, Japan help Army

Singapore, Japan help Army

JAKARTA: Several private companies from Japan and Singapore
handed over on Wednesday 19 units of secondhand buses and trucks
to the Indonesian Army to be used in reconstruction work in
tsunami-hit Aceh.

The buses and trucks were donated by six Singaporean companies
and two Japanese firms and handed over by Eka Kesia, president of
PT International Auction Multi-machine (PT IAM), which
coordinated the donation.

The assistant to the Army chief of logistics affairs, Maj.
Gen. Kirwantara Pattadiredja, who received the aid, said all the
buses and trucks would be dispatched to Aceh immediately to help
support the Army's operations and the planned reconstruction
program in Aceh.

IAM had previously dispatched food and medical aid and 15
units of ambulances, trucks and bulldozers to Aceh. -- JP