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UNDP extends another US$1.1 million in aid to Maluku
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The
Jakarta Post
June
25, 2003
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UNDP extends another US$1.1 million in aid to Maluku
AMBON, Maluku (Antara): The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has
extended another US$1.1 million in aid to finance development projects in Maluku.
"The $1.1 million in aid is a follow-up to the $3 million released in 1999 to help more
than 182,000 people in Maluku," the head of the UNDP representative office in the
province, Richard Manning, said on Wednesday.
The earlier aid was used to procure food, improve social services and develop public
facilities.
Manning said his side had signed cooperation agreements with Ambon Mayor Jopie
Papilaja, the Islamic organization Muhammadiyah, Mercy Corps International, the
Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals Association and the Media Development Loan Fund
to implement the recovery program in Maluku.
"Thus, it is not true that the presence of the UNDP as part of the UN bodies in Maluku
is politically motivated. Instead, we focus on humanitarian programs," he said.
Communal clashes broke out in the capital city of Maluku on Jan. 19, 1999.
The violence dragged on for several years, killing thousands of people and injuring
thousands of others.
It was not until Feb. 2, 2002, when the two warring camps in the famed Spice Islands
signed a peace accord.
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