TRINGGADING, Indonesia (AP) – Indonesia’s president travelled Friday to areas of Aceh province devastated by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake, as estimates of the number of displaced people swelled, and vowed that torn-apart communities would be rebuilt.
Stopping at a collapsed mosque in Tringgading not far from the quake’s epicentre, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo gave out envelopes stuffed with 15 million rupiah ($1,125) – a small fortune in Aceh where the minimum wage is about two million rupiah ($150) a month – to people whose family members were killed.
“I’ve already decided that the mosque will be rebuilt as soon as possible, but we have to do it together starting tomorrow,” he told the crowd.
More details in Saturday’s Borneo Bulletin.
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