trained engineer and a former mines and energy minister, as the powerful new chairman of the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency in Aceh. Zoellick said the primary objective of the road is to make a significant contribution to improving employment and the local economy. Tenders for the road project have already gone out and construction is ready to begin soon after the U.S. Congress appropriates the money, which is expected as soon as this month, aid officials said. The road project follows one of the biggest humanitarian relief operations in history, in which military contingents from several countries worked hand-in-hand with international relief agencies to provide life-saving assistance to tens of thousands of survivors stranded in cut-off coastal communities. --More 1454 Local Time 1154 GMT
