• When this occasionally occurs by mistake or human error, every effort is made to withdraw the advertising immediately and no fee is paid to the media owner.

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  • As the two leaders discuss economic reform and human rights in Indonesia, the effort to rebuild areas devastated by a tsunami at the end of 2004 continue.

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