| Thursday, September 28, 2006 SBY 'deserves Nobel Peace Prize' Ridwan Max Sijabat, The Jakarta Post,
Jakarta President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for hiswork to end almost three decades of separatist fighting in Nanggroe AcehDarussalam, politicians from the province say. Yudhoyono is favored by Australian bookmaker Centrebet to receive the prestigious international award this year for his contributions to the peace process in once-restive Aceh. The President recently gave a general lecture at the Nobel Institute in Oslo,Norway, where the winner of the 2006 prize will be announced on Oct. 13. Ahmad Farhan Hamid, a National Mandate Party legislator from Aceh, said Yudhoyono worked hard to promote dialog and a humanitarian approach to foster peacein the tsunami-ravaged province. Following his victory in the 2004 presidential election, Yudhoyono includedresolving the Aceh conflict on a list of key issues for his government, Farhansaid. "As the main focus of his 100-day government, the President formed a smalltask force including national figures and informal leaders to renegotiate withFree Aceh Movement (GAM) leaders both at home and overseas," he said. Farhan said Yudhoyono asked Vice President Jusuf Kalla and the task force totake the initiative to bring the rebel group to the negotiating table inHelsinki, Finland. Farhan said Yudhoyono evidenced a strong commitment to bringing peace to Acehwhen he recruited non-Javanese and non-diplomatic negotiators to representthe government in a series of peace talks with GAM leaders. The effort peakedwith the signing of the Helsinki peace agreement on Aug. 15, 2005, under themediation of former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari. "Yudhoyono's hard work shows real results with the ongoing establishment of ademocratic administration in Aceh," said Farhan. He added that Yudhoyono had spent a lot of time on efforts to end the conflict as security minister under the administration of former president MegawatiSoekarnoputri from 2001 to 2004. Farhan said Kalla and exiled GAM leader Hasan di Tiro should share the Nobelprize with Yudhoyono for their similar contributions to the peace accord. Support for Yudhoyono's Nobel nomination also came from Democrat Party deputychairman Ahmad Mubarok. He said it would be a victory for the nation as a whole if the President, whofounded the Democrat Party, won the prize. It was because of Yudhoyono's labors that peace was finally achieved in Aceh,Mubarok added. "Yudhoyono brought a new humanist approach, instead of a military and repressive one, to ending the secessionist movement. It appears to have proveneffective," he said. Political analyst Fachry Ali concurred, saying a Nobel Prize for Yudhoyono would be a political victory for Indonesia. "The way the government settled the conflict has also changed the perceptionof power in Indonesia, from the hierarchical and arrogant style to the humanist one," he said. Fachry said the central government had used a repressive military approachfor 24 years to attempt to settle the conflict under former authoritarian leaderSoeharto. Reformist regimes continued with that approach for six years, hesaid, but despite some agreements, they all failed to end the fighting | ||||
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Liberia Former Liberian president Charles Taylor, April 2006, has flown from Freetown to the Netherlands where he will stand trial for war crimes (AFP/File) | Geonocide in Bosnia _____________ Salah saboh cell teumpat tinggai Charles Taylor dan Milosovic di den Haag. (Ho ka urg tjarong2 dan njang haraih2 droë peumimpin Atjèh atji ba SBY, Wiranto, dll keunoe uléh seubab peuë njang djipeulaku ateuëh bgs atjèh silama 30 thôn |
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| A mass grave has been unearthed "The darkest chapter in Indonesia's history" Grim evidence of the army's campaign against separatism in Aceh is only now being uncovered. Only now can the real grieving begin. The BBC's Jonathan Head: | A family returns to its burned-out house by Indonesian military | Indonesian troops shot dead up to 60 people and wounded 10 last Friday in two villages in Beutong Ateuh of West Aceh. And the bodies were thrown into an abandoned well | Investigators have found a number of mass graves in Acheh committed by the Indonesian regime |
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