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Project to help Indonesia tackle bird flu finally takes off
Sept 9, 2007
A JOINT project between Indonesia, Singapore and the US to boost Jakarta's ability to curb the spread of bird flu is finally taking off almost two years after it was conceived.
The project, which will be carried out at a cost of US$4.5million (S$6.8 million), is the brainchild of the three countries' leaders and was formulated when they met on the sidelines of an Apec meeting in Seoul in Nov2005.
For a three-year period, experts will carry out work aimed at preventing the spread of the virus in Tangerang municipality in Banten province - the worst-hit area in terms of human deaths.
Tangerang's dense population of almost two million people and hundreds of backyard poultry farms in residential areas are a microcosm of Indonesia. The municipality covers 200 sq km.
The aim is to help Indonesia translate its national strategy plan into a defined and localised geographical area. The lessons learnt there could then be applied to other areas nationwide.
But the project has taken more than a year to get under way due to administrative problems.
Complicated bureaucracy got in the way of funds being channelled from Indonesian government coffers to the project, while organising a series of meetings between the officials of three countries to hammer out the details proved tricky.
Indonesian officials told The Straits Times that Jakarta had been working with Singapore officials in getting the project under way since it was agreed by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and US President George W. Bush in 2005.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest+News/Asia/STIStory_156283.html
Project to help Indonesia tackle bird flu finally takes off
Sept 9, 2007
A JOINT project between Indonesia, Singapore and the US to boost Jakarta's ability to curb the spread of bird flu is finally taking off almost two years after it was conceived.
The project, which will be carried out at a cost of US$4.5million (S$6.8 million), is the brainchild of the three countries' leaders and was formulated when they met on the sidelines of an Apec meeting in Seoul in Nov2005.
For a three-year period, experts will carry out work aimed at preventing the spread of the virus in Tangerang municipality in Banten province - the worst-hit area in terms of human deaths.
Tangerang's dense population of almost two million people and hundreds of backyard poultry farms in residential areas are a microcosm of Indonesia. The municipality covers 200 sq km.
The aim is to help Indonesia translate its national strategy plan into a defined and localised geographical area. The lessons learnt there could then be applied to other areas nationwide.
But the project has taken more than a year to get under way due to administrative problems.
Complicated bureaucracy got in the way of funds being channelled from Indonesian government coffers to the project, while organising a series of meetings between the officials of three countries to hammer out the details proved tricky.
Indonesian officials told The Straits Times that Jakarta had been working with Singapore officials in getting the project under way since it was agreed by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and US President George W. Bush in 2005.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest+News/Asia/STIStory_156283.html