Indonesia orders foreign aid workers helping with tsunami effort to leave

Disaster agency says foreign NGOs should ‘retrieve their personnel immediately’

Foreign aid workers who rallied to the island of Sulawesi after the devastating earthquake and tsunami more than a week ago have been asked to leave the country by the Indonesian government.

Foreign agencies flew in after a devastating earthquake on 28 September, which triggered a tsunami. The official death toll from the disaster is 1,944, about 5,000 people remain missing, presumed dead.

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