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the three villages in North Morotai that were attacked on 15 September. 

Food Security and Agriculture 
IRD reports that its stock items for distribution in their school feeding 
programme have arrived in Ternate. However, due to administrative problems, the 
distribution of the product will be delayed until early November. 

On the advice of WHO, the Governor agreed to establish an AIDS Committee for 
the Province this week. WHO is also preparing for its water and sanitation 
training that would start next week. Staff from all Puskesmas and local NGOs in 
North Maluku will attend the training. 

IMC continued its health services and mobile clinics in Kao, Malifut, Tobelo, 
South Morotai, North Morotai sub-districts and Posi-Posi Rao Island and treated 
over 594 patients. IMC also carried out training on HIV and sex education in 
Seki village of Galela sub-district with 150 participants and distributed 4 
Traditional Birth Attendant kits in Galela sub-district. 

ACF carried out health education on malaria in Ranga-Ranga, Kubo, Sawat, 
Tanjung Matuting, Tanjung Jere, Bitonam and Lalubi villages East Gane sub-
district. 

Water and Sanitation 
CARDI continued monitoring and evaluating its water and sanitation projects in 
South Jailolo and Oba sub-district this week. 

Shelter and Non- Food Items 
WVI implemented a Participatory Learning and Action approach for its roofing 
program in Soatobaru village, Galela sub-district and in Pasir Putih, Tewewang, 
Gamsungi Akesahu, and Dum-Dum Pantai village of Jailolo sub-district. WVI also 
distributed materials for roofing in Biamaahi, Dehe, Domato, and Akeara 
villages of South Jailolo sub-district, in Sabatai Baru and Sambiki village 
South Morotai sub-district. 

CORDAID reported that with its local partners, it would begin the project of 
reconstruction of house from November. The project will include a 
reconciliation programme in the communities affected. Details of the projects 
are as follows: 

No. Houses    Village    District    Local NGO    Start Reconciliation    Start 
Reconstruction 
       30            Golao     Jailolo      BINTIM                Oct 20-
2002               Nov 01-2002 
       10            Talaga    Ibu           YBMS                  Oct 20-
2002               Nov 01-2002 
       10            Susupu   Sahu       Lakpesdam NU 
                                                      Maluku Utara       Oct 20-
2002               Nov 01-2002 
       15            Peot        Sahu        LPMP                  Oct 27-
2002               Nov 06-2002 
       10         Biamaahi   S. Jailolo                              Oct 27-
2002               Nov 06-2002 
         8           Tahane    Malifut      IKATAMA            Oct 27-
2002               Nov 06-2002 
         7           Sosol       Kao          IKATAMA             Oct 27-
2002               Nov 06-2002 


Education 
UNICEF is compiling the results of the education and rapid needs assessment for 
Loloda taken place last week. The report will be distributed to INGOs and UN 
Agencies shortly. UNICEF is continuing to work with the local Education and 
Social Affairs Departments to ensure the appropriate programming for 
its 'School in a Box', children's right, teacher training, and emergency 
materials for schools. 

WVI distributed wall paint and roll-brushes to 2 junior high schools in Tobelo 
and distributed material for their ' Happy House' projects to Gamhoku, SD 
Inpres I and SD Inpres II in Tobelo sub-district. 

Economic Recovery and Infrastructure 
WVI monitored its Community Rehabilitation Project (CRP) in Tobelo, Kao, 
Malifut and Galela and socialisation and implementation of its Participatory 
Learning and Action (PLA) in their CRP II project in Galela and Tobelo sub-
district. WVI also continued the distribution of infrastructure commodities for 
a health post in Roko village, Galela sub-district, implementation of PLA in 
Gura, Gorua, Luari and Togoliua village of Tobelo sub-district and in 
Soatobaru, Seki, Pune, Gotalamo and Seki villages of Galela sub-district. It 
also transported materials in Galela sub-district for health posts in Roko, 
Ori/Bale and Limau villages, MCK in Soatobaru village, and a water tank in 
Soatobaru village. 

UNDP's electrification program in Tobelo and Galela sub-district is being 
finalised with the successful completion of its bidding procedures. Work will 
begin soon and the project is expected to be completed in 4 months. 

Others 
On Saturday (12 Oct.), 23 Local NGOs had their second monthly meeting at the 
UNRC Ternate and were briefed on humanitarian issues in the province by UNICEF, 
WHO, FAO and OCHA. CORDAID also attended. The next meeting will be held on 16 
November. 

On Wednesday (16 Oct.), all UN Agencies and INGOs in Ternate attended a 
coordination meeting chaired by the acting Governor. 

6. WEST TIMOR 

General Situation 
Provincial Military Chief, Col. Moeswarno Moesanip said on Thursday (10 Oct.) 
in Kupang that the visit of President of Timor Lorosae, Xanana Gusmao to Kupang 
was postponed indefinitely. President Gusmao was scheduled to visit West Timor 
from 20 to 24 October to encourage the remaining East Timor refugees to return 
home. 

In a report to the Coordinating Minister of People's Welfares in Kupang, 
Governor of East Nusa Tenggara, Piet Talo stated that the total size of land 
used by the East Timorese refugees in West Timor was 2, 593 hectares, in which 
1, 927 hectares were owned by the locals. 

Commander of Border Security Taskforce, Lt. Col, Djoko Subandrio said on 
Saturday (12 Oct.) in Atambua that many of the refugees are now aware of the 
need to maintain security and order in Belu. They understand that possessing 
firearms is against the law. Since August 2002, as many as 15 assembled 
firearms, 8 grenades, and 400 ammunitions were handed over by the refugees to 
the Security officers. 

Some 700 members of Laskar Jihad returned from Maluku to Java aboard a 
passenger ship that transited in Kupang seaport on Thursday (16 Oct.). Tight 
security measures were taken by the Police at the seaport. 

Population Movement 
IOM Kupang reported 16 East Timorese returned to East Timor from 11 to 16 
October 2002. Among those, 3 persons repatriated from Jakarta on Friday (11 
Oct.). 

JRS facilitated the come and talk visit of the people from Aiasa, East Timor on 
Saturday (12 Oct.) at refugee camps of Turiskain and Haekesak in Belu. 

7. OTHER 

On Saturday (12 Oct.), two powerful bombs exploded near the Sari Club in Bali, 
causing heavy casualties and extensive property destruction. On Monday (14 
Oct.), the Government of Indonesia briefed the Diplomatic Corps and UN Agencies 
in Jakarta, reporting 490 casualties, with 182 killed and 309 injured, among 
them 130 seriously injured. As of Wednesday (16 Oct.), the official death toll 
stands at 183 people. 

As of Tuesday (15 Oct.), Bakornas PBP channelled Emergency Funds (IDR 1 
billion) to the Satkorlak PBP of Bali to cover operational costs. The Medical 
Crisis Centre (PPMK) of the Ministry of Health informed OCHA that the 
Government of Indonesia have received medical personnel from Singapore, the 
United Nations in Dili, East Timor, Australia, the Philippines and others. The 
Department of Health, National Search and Rescue Agency and the Indonesian Red 
Cross (PMI) have provided body bags, coffins and large refrigerators. 

PPMK is currently establishing an inventory of medical supplies and evaluating 
its operation for the past few days. 

PMI has sixty rapid response volunteers working with medical teams, all from 
the Bali branch of the Red Cross. PMI volunteers are also helping Government 
officials to clean up the affected sites and assisting the medical personnel to 
identify the dead. 

On Thursday (17 Oct.) OCHA deployed its Emergency Response Officer to Bali to 
liase with Government officials, PPMK and other actors on the ground and 
support coordination. 

This report and previous ones can be found at www.reliefweb.int 
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Phillips awaits Timor treaty sign-off for Bayu-Undan LNG
Sydney (Platts)--18Oct2002

US-based Phillips Petroleum was "still hopeful" that the Timor Sea Treaty 
covering oil and gas developments in the Joint Petroleum Development Area 
(JPDA) between Australia and East Timor would be ratified by the end of 
December 2002, a company spokesman said Friday. 

Phillips requires the treaty to be ratified before it would proceed with 
construction of a 3-mil mt/year LNG plant in the northern Australian city of 
Darwin. The A$3-bil ($1.6-bil) project would process gas from the Phillips-
operated Bayu-Undan field which lies within the JPDA. "We do want the Timor Sea 
Treaty ratified as soon as possible and would rather it was not tied to the 
Sunrise unitization agreement," said Phillips' Darwin area manager Blair 
Murphy. 

Australia and East Timor gave a commitment to finalizing an International 
Unitization Agreement (IUA) for the massive Sunrise gas field by Dec 31, 2002 
as part of a memorandum of understanding signed with the new Timor Sea Treaty 
in Dili on May 20, 2002. 

Under the terms of the treaty, revenues from developments in the JPDA are split 
on a 10:90 basis by Australia and East Timor. Phillips has signed contracts to 
supply Bayu-Undan LNG to Japan's Tokyo Electric Power and Tokyo Gas for 17 
years from January 2006. 

"We need 36 months to build the [Darwin] facility," Murphy said. If the 
ratification process "is strung out too long, it does jeopardize the Darwin 
project," he said, adding that if the ratification did not come by December, it 
needed to be as "early as possible" after that. 

Bayu-Undan is held by Phillips (58.6%), Santos (11.8%), Inpex (11.7%), Kerr-
McGee Corp (11.2%) and Agip (6.7%). A $1.5-bil liquids stripping project, the 
fiscal terms for which have already been agreed, is currently under development 
at Bayu-Undan and will begin producing at around 100,000 b/d in early 2004. 

The Sunrise field is held by operator Woodside Petroleum (33.44%), Shell 
(26.56%), Phillips (30%) and Japan's Osaka Gas (10%). Woodside is currently in 
the process of assessing whether to develop the field using an export-oriented 
floating LNG facility or an onshore domestic gas facility. Only 20% of Sunrise 
is currently deemed to lie in the JPDA, although East Timor has indicated it 
wants much more of the field to be included. 


David Maxwell, Woodside Energy's director, gas business unit, told an 
Australian government Joint Standing Committee on Treaties hearing on Oct 14 
that Woodside supported ratification of both the treaty and the Sunrise IUA at 
the same time. He added that it was still possible for a unitization agreement 
to be reached by Dec 31, but Woodside understood the negotiations still had 
some way to go. 

Dr Geoffrey Raby, first assistant secretary, international organizations and 
legal division with the Australian government's Department of Foreign Affairs 
and Trade, told the hearing that East Timor's negotiators had indicated at a 
meeting in Perth in early October that they were still committed to the Dec 31 
deadline. But he admitted he was not sure whether the IUA would be signed by 
then. 

Raby made it clear that the department saw the development of the Sunrise field 
as more important to Australia's national interest than Bayu-Undan. "The East 
Timorese element and interest is with the early development of Bayu-Undan," he 
said. "We have some interest in Bayu-Undan, but Australia's bigger interest is 
demonstrably with the development of Greater Sunrise. 

To do the treaty without having concluded an IUA for Sunrise would leave us 
possibly in a situation of less confidence and less certainty that at present." 
The hearing was told that Australia would earn taxation revenue of A$2-bil over 
the life of the Bayu-Undan project, compared with around A$400-mil/year from 
Sunrise.
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Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Friday, October  18, 2002. Posted: 05:24:25 (AEDT) 
Maritime authority fears for tanker safety in Indonesian waters

The world's maritime watchdog fears tankers moving through Indonesian waters 
may be at risk of terrorist attacks following the Bali explosions.

The head of the International Maritime Authority says concerns about pirates 
operating in Indonesian waters have increased since the bombings.

Captain Pottengal Mukundan says there is little ships can do to protect 
themselves from attacks.

He wants ships to be given their own patrolled shipping lanes clear of all 
other traffic to lessen the risk.

"There is a growing problem with terrorism in Indonesia which the authorities 
are not able to control and, in this environment, we have to be aware of the 
possibility that ships will be attacked," he said.