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May 12, 2000
Indonesia, Aceh Rebels OK Cease-Fire
Filed at 6:52 a.m. EDT
By The Associated Press
GENEVA (AP) -- Indonesian government and Aceh rebel
representatives today signed an agreement that
will lead to their
first formal cease-fire in 25 years of fighting.
Hassan Wirayuda, Indonesia's permanent U.N.
representative in Geneva,
and Zaini Abdullah, an Aceh rebel representative
based in Sweden,
signed the ``joint understanding on a
humanitarian pause'' at an
undisclosed location, said an official close to
the talks.
The ``humanitarian pause'' will start June 2,
three weeks after the
signing, the Indonesian mission to U.N. offices
in Geneva said in a
statement.
``The first phase of its implementation covers a
period of three
months and will be regularly reviewed for its
renewal,'' the
statement said. It covers ``joint efforts both
to increase humanitarian
relief assistance and to reduce tension and to
stop violence.''
Today's signing, at a location kept secret at
the request of both sides,
followed three rounds of talks between the two
sides facilitated by
the Geneva-based Henri Dunant Center for
Humanitarian Dialogue.
``This joint understanding is an early step of a
hundred-step journey
in the efforts to find a final solution of the
Aceh problem,'' Wirayuda
said in the Indonesian statement.
He said that in the three rounds of dialogue
``we have produced the
joint understanding which -- if it is
implemented successfully --
could help boost the confidence for the
subsequent process.''
Two joint committees will be established to
implement the
agreement, the Indonesian statement said. Each
will have a maximum
of 10 members. A monitoring team comprising
``five persons of high
integrity'' will oversee their activities.
The committees will be based in Banda Aceh, the
Acehnese provincial
capital. A ``joint forum'' consisting of
representatives from both
sides will be based in Switzerland and regarded
as the highest
decision-making body.
One of the joint committees will be responsible
for humanitarian
action, ``coordinating effective delivery of
humanitarian relief
assistance in a way which will ensure greater
participation of and
benefit to the people of Aceh,'' the Indonesian
statement said.
The second committee will oversee security
aspects of the program,
``particularly by ensuring the reduction of
tension and the cessation
of violence,'' it said.
Abdullah said Thursday that the rebels will
abide by such a cease-fire
agreement, which ``would be very important for
the Acehnese because
we don't want fighting any more.''
But he said they would not drop their ultimate
demand for
independence for the northwestern province, on
the tip of Sumatra
Island.
In Jakarta, President Abdurrahman Wahid had said
he hoped the
negotiations would produce a cease-fire in Aceh,
where 5,000 people
have been killed in the last decade, including
345 this year.
But Wahid also said once again that he will not
accept the rebels'
demand for independence.
The Aceh rebels, embittered a crackdown by the
Indonesian military
and by perceived economic exploitation, are
fighting for independence
for their province. They also want a greater
share of the profits from
their oil-rich region and the right to impose
Islamic religious laws on
the people.
Wahid, a Muslim cleric and reformist who took
office in October, has
promised Aceh partial autonomy and a greater
share of the oil profits.
He has also reduced the number of soldiers in
the government's
counterinsurgency.
In addition, the president began an
unprecedented human rights
tribunal in Aceh, which is trying Indonesian
soldiers on murder
charges. On Tuesday, 13 soldiers admitted
executing civilians, but
testified that they were only following the
orders of their military
commander.
Many of Aceh's 4.3 million population know
people who have died or
disappeared during the separatist insurgency,
and many civilians were
praying at mosques and schools today for success
at the talks.
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