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BANDA ACEH, JAN. 12. Indonesia ordered aid workers and journalists on Wednesday to declare travel plans or face expulsion from the country's tsunami-devastated Aceh province as authorities moved to reassert control of the rebellion-wracked area. Security concerns threaten to hamper efforts to deliver aid to the province on the northern tip of Sumatra island, where more than 100,000 people were killed and tens of thousands left homeless or in need. The United Nations has been running the relief effort, appealing to donors attending a conference in Geneva to honour the unprecedented $4 billion in pledges to help victims of the December 26 disaster. The military has warned that rebels could rob aid convoys and use refugee camps as hideouts but has yet to offer evidence to back its claims. ``It is important to note that the Government would be placed in a very difficult position if any foreigner who came to Aceh to assist in the aid effort was harmed through the acts of irresponsible parties,'' the Indonesian Government said in a statement. Asked if those who failed to register with the Government before travelling outside the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, would be expelled, the Welfare Minister, Alwi Shihab, said: ``I think that is one possibility.'' Before the magnitude-9 temblor touched off the tsunami, foreigners were banned from the area. The restrictions underlined the unease with which Indonesia has faced the growth of the unprecedented aid operation, replete with civilian aid workers and foreign soldiers. Wary of Indonesia's sensitivities, U.S. Marines, diverted here from duty in Iraq, have scaled back their plans to send hundreds of troops to build roads and clear rubble.
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