Mathias Hariyadi

Ulemas Council agrees to mass burial and accelerated purification rites for the dead. All emergency food is declared in principle 'halal', i.e. permissible.

Banks and markets reopen. Separatist guerrillas shoot at survivors and soldiers in Lhoknga.

The island lacks food, drinking water and medicines. In Banda Aceh makeshift shelters are being built out of tsunami rubble.

As the death toll reaches 95,000, a series of alphanumeric messages sent via mobile phones have been urging people to "adopt orphans".

Tsunami orphans available for the right price

Jakarta will host an international relief summit on January 6 to consolidate joint commitment and plan reconstruction and rehabilitation.

The death toll is continuing to rise and now stands at more than 79,000 in Aceh and North Sumatra. Military and civilian planes will be allowed in without visa to facilitate relief operations in tsunami-affected areas.

Rescue operations are still difficult and the twon of Meulaboh can only be reached by plane. Four fifths of all its buildings have been destroyed, and the authorities fear 20,000 people might have died. The death toll in Indonesia now stands at 45,000.

Indonesia's bishops urge fund raising for people left disabled by the tsunami.

The death toll stands at 36,000 and keeps on rising. The Bishops' Conference of Indonesia has set up collection centres, urging Catholics to help out the people in the hardest-hit areas.

Army declares ceasefire with GAM rebels to facilitate aid and rescue operations.

Inter-religious solidarity for quake and tsunami victims