Friday, December 22, 2006

Indonesia rebuild

Following the Tsunami in December of 2004 there was a tremendous amount of support that came from the world with roughly 6.6 billion dollars. In this article it is going over the misdirection of these funds to organizations not meant for country wide rebuilding.

There has been 8,000 homes built but there was a projected 500,000 needed. While there are the "ledgitimate" aspects of excuse for not completing this covered in the article, some of which is beaucracy and some of which isn't. The unfortunate truth pointed up by this is no one, in 2 years, has taken the responsibility to handle this area. It gives as excuses essentially all the beaucratic steps needing to be taken to get these houses made, like in the case of the records of land ownership being swep away in the tsunami, the dispute for ownership is prevalent. This is insane, their entire country is gone. They are given 6.6 billion U.S. dollars and who knows how many willing volunteers and no one will lay down the plan of X houses, here, here, here, here, here and here.

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