| Polls in Indonesia's Aceh should not hit peace pact: analyst JAKARTA, September 28 (AFP) -- The challenge of staging polls inIndonesia's Aceh this year should not derail a peace pact signed in 2005 between separatists and the government, an analyst said Thursday. The province is set to hold its first-ever gubernatorial elections on December 11 under the pact, which was signed last August by Jakarta and the rebel Free Aceh Movement (GAM). The agreement ended
nearly three decades of conflict. Voters will also select the heads of Aceh's 19 districts and mayoralty. "At this point of time, I don't think there is anything significant enough (related to the polls) to derail the peace process," said Sidney Jones, the Southeast Asian director of the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think-tank. She told a public discussion about the polls that one of the main reasons why was that only individuals could run and not political parties, which under the peace deal will have to wait until the next electoral cycle begins in 2009. Local political parties are outlawed elsewhere in Indonesia, but are to be
permitted in Aceh under the deal. "The safety valve that is built in is the notion that it is actually the 2009 elections that are really important for GAM," Jones said. "There will be irritation, disappointment, frustration, resentment, all of the above, if they come out with nothing from the local elections, but because of the higher goal of 2009, it may not have a particularly destabilizing effect," she said. Jones also noted that GAM had now split into two rival groups mostly due to differences over who to nominate as a candidate for governor. One centered around ex-leaders who were exiled in Sweden and the other around leaders here.
Their rivalry -- which was "getting really, really down and dirty now" with both sides trading insults and accusations -- reduced the prospect of violence, she said. Other elements, such as the Indonesian security authorities, would have more scope to throw money and support behind one candidate and spread disinformation on others than to engage in open violence, Jones added. The peace pact was spurred by the 2004 Asian tsunami, which killed some 168,000 people in Aceh. GAM agreed to drop its demand for independence in return for partial self-rule. Aceh, located at the northernmost tip of Sumatra island, was racked by a violent separatist conflict for 29 years that claimed the lives of some 15,000 people, mostly civilians. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Massacred in KNPI Lhokseumawe, 60 civilians were brutally butchered by Indonesian Occupation Forces
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KEBIADABAN, KEGANASAN, KEKEJAMAN, KEKEJIAN, dan KEBUASAN bangsa JAWA terhadap Bangsa Aceh ![]() Local police chief Said Huseini said three "separatist rebels" were shot dead Saturday on the outskirts of the provincial capital Banda Aceh. A civilian was killed in the crossfire, he said. ![]() MASYARAKAT ACEH BERBARING DI TANAH PADA SAAT TNI AD MELEPASKAN TEMBAKAN PERINGATAN PADA RIBUAN PENGUNJUK RASA DI LHOKSEUMAWE, PROPINSI ACEH 21 APRIL 1999. DUA ORANG PENDUDUK TEWAS SETELAH POLISSI DAN TENTARA MEMBUBARKAN UNJUK RASA RIBUAN PELAJAR SEKOLAH YANG MEMINTA DILEPASKANNYA 300 ORANG PELAJAR YANG TERTANGKAP SAAT UNJUK RASA MENDUKUNG
KEMERDEKAAN ACEH BEBERAPA HARI SEBELUMNYA. (en/str: REUTERS)
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Press Release
To News Editors
July 21, 1999
For Immediate Release
ACEH REBEL LEADER CALLS INDONESIAN RULE ABSURD In a rare interview from his exile in Sweden, the leader of the movement fighting for independence in Indonesia's northernmost province of Aceh, Hasan di Tiro, says Indonesia has no right to govern Aceh. The exclusive interview with the FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW appears in its July 29 issue, published Thursday, July 22. The uncompromising di Tiro calls Indonesia another name for the Dutch East Indies with new rulers, Javanese instead of Dutch. Di Tiro, who declared Aceh's independence in 1976 but fled to Sweden three years later, dismisses Indonesia's new autonomy legislation as irrelevant. The notion of Indonesia is absurd, he says. He also ridicules the Bahasa Indonesia language as "pidgin Malay" and calls the Javanese "barbaric and uncivilized." Di Tiro puts the overall strength of separatist forces operating in
Aceh at around 5,000. Asked what sort of message would he send to a new Indonesian government, perhaps one headed by Megawati Sukarnoputri whose party won the largest number of votes in June's parliamentary elections, Di Tiro says: "No message. They're all the same. Uneducated fools." The REVIEW obtained the interview amid mounting concern that Aceh may be posing a serious challenge to Indonesian unity. The REVIEW reports Indonesian military concerns that outside support makes Aceh's rebels much more dangerous than the ragtag, poorly armed independence fighters of East Timor and Irian Jaya. Two battalions of troops--backed by 1,700 paramilitary police from Jakarta--have renewed operations in Aceh response to a wave of ambushes, assassinations and arson attacks in recent weeks. In one of the worst incidents so far, guerrillas killed five soldiers and wounded 20 in a July 19 ambush on a military convoy.
More than 70,000 refugees have scattered across Aceh. For further information, please contact:
Michael Vatikiotis
Far Eastern Economic Review
Tel 852 2508 4420
Fax 852 2503 1530
![]() | ![]() The death of the charismatic Syafii, 54, his wife Fatimah alias Aisyah and five bodyguards were killed in the head and chest on Tuesday during fierce battle. Indonesia accused of treachery over Syafii's killing. (AT) ![]() The remains of great and charismatic Abdullah Syafei (L), 54, his wife Fatimah alias Aisyah (R) were taken to their house after verification
of identities by his brother Zakaria at Sigli hospital on 24 January 2002. Abdullah Syafei was the Free Acheh Movement (GAM)' s War Commander who was killed by Indonesian troops on 22 January. GAM has accused Indonesian military of treachery over Syafii's killing. (AT)
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"KEBIADABAN KAFIR indonesia jawa tidak akan kita maafkan oleh kita Bangsa Aceh. Lihat dalam foto, bagaimana kafir laknat penjajah indonesia jawa membunuh anak2 Bangsa Aceh di depan ibu2
mereka yang telah tua. Kemudian kafir laknat indonesia jawa itu telah mengikat tangan2 ibu mereka.....Demi Allah, kita Bangsa Aceh wajib terus memerangi kafir laknat penjajah indonesia jawa penyembah berhala burung garuda dan pancasila. KITA BANGSA ACEH JANGAN SEKALI-KALI PATAH SEMANGAT dalam memerangi kafir laknat indonesia jawa yang biadab itu. Wassalam, Puteh Sarong | | |
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*Pada hakikatnya OTONOMI buat aceh hanyalah pengekalan status kita sebagai bangsa terjajah" I D
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