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...cause of the carnage was a massive earthquake that trembled the earth's crust off the western coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, setting off through the oceans shock waves that were felt more than 3,000 miles away on the coast of East Africa, where at least 200 people died. Bustami, a fisherman from the Sumatran village of Bosun, is one who experienced the quake and tsunami and lived to tell about them. Sometime after 7:30 on the morning of Dec. 26, he says, he was on his boat just off the coast when he felt...
...Doctors Without Borders The group has dispatched 54 tons of medical and sanitation equipment to northern Sumatra and Colombo and opened a clinic in Aceh, near the epicenter of the earthquake...
...pirate attacks will be reversed anytime soon. While Singaporean and Malaysian authorities do their best to police their parts of the strait, in Indonesian waters pirates roam virtually unchecked, using the hundreds of islands and bays as bases and sanctuaries. Indonesia's navy, says a senior officer based on Sumatra's east coast, is "poorly paid, poorly equipped and poorly motivated. The government can't even pay our wages on time or in full, and often we can't go out on patrol anyway because we don't have enough money for fuel. The pirates have faster boats, plenty...
...Piracy Reporting Centre. The cause is an outbreak of kidnapping for ransom by pirates in the strait, which most recently saw four sailors spirited away from a tugboat in October (two of the men are still missing). In the worst such incident, off the coast of northern Sumatra, four crew members were killed in January after negotiations between their kidnappers and the ship's owners broke down. "We have to do something about the kidnappings before they spiral out of control," says Choong...
...That was the start of an eight-day ordeal for Teh, who stops to compose himself when he tells his story. Teh was taken to what he believes was a part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, then moved from one jungle clearing to the next each night, and hidden away during the day in the thick forest. One morning, Teh was finally bundled onto a boat and dropped off at gunpoint on a passing fishing vessel that returned him to Malaysia. (Teh and his family insist that no ransom was paid...