(11 Jan 2005)
January 11, 2005
1. Exterior of Banda Aceh airport
2. Various of Indonesian General Endriartono Sutarto, chief of Indonesia armed forces, meeting French humanitarian mission
3. SOUNDBITE: (Bahasa Indonesia) General Endriartono Sutarto, Chief of Indonesia Armed Forces:
"We do not want these foreign aid workers to go to unsafe areas because we are detecting that rebels may try to disturb this humanitarian mission. I do want not any of their team members to be killed by the rebels. Therefore we limit their humanitarian work to around Banda Aceh and Meulaboh."
4. Cameraman
5. SOUNDBITE: (Bahasa Indonesia) General Endriartono Sutarto, Chief of Indonesia Armed Forces:
"My soldiers' operation is linked to the humanitarian mission but humanitarian work needs to be protected. Some of my soldiers are helping the humanitarian operation and some others will protect the operation. My soldiers will not be on the offensive fighting the rebels but they will protect the humanitarian mission."
6. Transport plane on runway at Banda Aceh
7. Various of Indonesian troops carrying boxes
8. Truck laded with aid parked next to transport plane
9. Bettina Luescher, spokeswoman for World Food Programme (WFP) at UN compound in Banda Aceh
10. Close-up WFP logo on cap
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Bettina Luescher, spokeswoman for World Food Programme:
(Q:"Have you heard of any new restrictions today?")
"We have not heard of new restrictions. We're just getting media reports."
12. Luescher being interviewed
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Bettina Luescher, spokeswoman for World Food Programme:
"As far as we can tell our aid workers, our people, are moving freely, without restrictions. We are bringing food now also into the northeastern part of Aceh, where people have been waiting for the food. So our work goes on and we're working closely together with the Indonesian military and the government to make sure that the people here get the food."
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14. Various of WFP delivering aid around Banda Aceh
STORYLINE:
Indonesia's military chief said on Tuesday that the army wanted to limit international humanitarian aid to certain areas of Aceh province, amid concerns over rebel activity.
General Endriartono Sutarto said he did want not foreign aid workers to go to "unsafe areas", where he believed rebels might try to disturb the humanitarian mission.
He said the Indonesian military would limit humanitarian work by foreign aid workers to areas around Banda Aceh and Meulaboh to reduce the chance of them being killed.
The general added that his soldiers would not take the offensive against rebels but would protect aid workers.
Indonesia opened up a new airport on an island north of the devastated city of Banda Aceh, hoping to relieve pressure on the provincial capital's tiny airport the day after a US helicopter crashed there.
The military asked aid groups to draw up a list of international relief workers - and to report on their movements - but has yet to offer evidence backing the claims.
Meanwhile, Bettina Luescher, a spokeswoman for the World Food Programme in Banda Aceh said aid workers for the organisation were moving "freely, without restrictions."
Across the region, tens of thousands of people are homeless and threatened by the disease, and health officials have warned that the death toll from the tsunami disaster could double if aid does not reach the neediest fast enough.
An aid conference was under way in Geneva to determine how to best help survivors of the December 26 disaster that killed more than 150,000 people in Asia and Africa.
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