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Wed, 2010-12-01 12:43
Arsyad Nurdin, director of planning at the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration, says the government has agreed to move up to 3,000 families from Mount Merapi’s “danger zone.” Eighty families have already left and another 45 are ready to go.
Oon Kurniaputra, an adviser to the ministry, said Wednesday that the government will offer those willing to leave temporary homes and two hectares of land so they can start a new life.
Merapi is located on Indonesia’s Java island. It has killed 347 people since bursting back to life in late October. More than 20,000 evacuees are still living in makeshift emergency shelters.
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