As the initial emergency stage passes, what strategies is the Indonesian government considering to rebuild?
We are dividing the task into three phases. Relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction. The immediate humanitarian relief operation lasted for two months and was dominated by emergency operations. The rehabilitation phase has been taking place and would last for another year and one half. This phase should allow us to restore services to the minimum levels required. We expect that the full reconstruction, and therefore recovery will be a process taking at least five years. The challenge at this point is to deal with more than six hundred thousand people who are homeless or badly affected by the disaster, including the provision of water, food and basic shelter while electricity, communications and transport are being restored. The government has split the oversight of this recovery effort into several parts. First, the National Coordinating Board for Disaster Management (BAKORNAS) and the operational direction of the Coordinating Minister for Social Affairs have the main duty of mobiliz
