A woman laughs at a refugee camp in Kabanjahe, North Sumatra province.

北苏门答腊省卡班贾赫，一名妇女在难民营大笑。

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Children sit on the floor as a band performs at a shelter in Brastagi, North Sumatra province.

北苏门答腊省马达册避难所，孩子们坐在地上看一个乐队的表演。

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In September armed men attacked a police station in Medan, North Sumatra province, killing three officers, in an apparent retaliation for the capture or killing of terrorist suspects.

在九月份，武装分子袭击了位于北苏门答腊省棉兰市的一个警察局，杀死了三位警官，这明显是对恐怖嫌犯被捕或被杀的报复。

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The deadly melee broke out in North Sumatra province, where more than 100 Rohingya migrants most intercepted off Indonesia's coast in rickety boats and 11 illegal fishermen from Myanmar were being held together, said local police chief Endro Kiswanto.

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The government has clearly learnt some lessons from the much larger earthquake off the coast of north Sumatra in December 2004, which triggered a huge tsunami and killed more than 150, 000 people in Aceh province and another 60, 000 in a dozen countries around the Indian Ocean.

ECONOMIST: This time the president knew what he had to do