SPA -- Around 9,245 tsunami-affected families still live in self-made emergency tents in Aceh Jaya District at present or over two years after the deadly disaster that hit Aceh province and Nias Island (North Sumatra) in December 2004, reported ANTARA news agency. "The refugees are to be found in Jaya, Sampoiniet, Setia Bakti, Krueng Sabee, Panga and Teunom," Mutia Anzib, a local legislator of Aceh Jaya District, said here on Friday. Aceh Jaya district with Calang as capital, around 156 km west of Banda Aceh, was among the parts of Aceh province worst hit by the tsunami which destroyed hundreds of office buildings and thousands of houses in the area. Around 35 percent of the district's 100,000 population were killed or disappeared in the disaster. Out of a total of 12,999 new houses needed for tsunami victims in the district, only 3,754 have so far been completed and some 2,343 are still under construction. "I am very much concerned over the fate of the tsunami victims. Many of them have been living in self-made emergency tents over the past two years," Mutia Anzib said. -- SPA
