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The humanitarian sector has long promised to give local aid organisations more power and resources. Yet reforms are not forthcoming. After the Tsunami in Sulawesi, the Indonesian government made a radical decision: All international aid workers had to leave Sulawesi. What has been the effect of this decision? And why is it so complicated to change the relationship between international and local aid organisations?
We talk about this with humanitarian expert Jemilah Mahmood (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies), Christine Pirenne (Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and Saskia Harmens (Oxfam Novib International).
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