Nani Farida and Tiarma Siboro, Banda Aceh/Jakarta – The effort to bring peace back to Aceh faces another stiff test after the Free Aceh Movement (…
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April 22, 2003
Jakarta Post - April 22, 2003
Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – The trial of an Aceh activist in Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh, on Monday turned tense when more than 150 supporters…
April 21, 2003
Jakarta Post - April 21, 2003
Nani Farida, Jakarta/Aceh – President Megawati Soekarnoputri on Sunday dismissed speculation that the Indonesian Military (TNI) would launch an…
April 20, 2003
Tempo - April 20, 2003
The armed conflict between the Indonesian armed forces, TNI, and the Free Acheh Movement, GAM, is hotting up again and victims have started to…
April 19, 2003
Reuters - April 19, 2003
Banda Aceh – Indonesia's military and separatist rebels in Aceh have traded charges over reports of six killings in the province ahead…
Jakarta Post - April 19, 2003
Jakarta – The National Commission on Anti-Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) has expressed its concern over the possibility of…
Jakarta Post - April 19, 2003
Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – The trial of Muhammad Nazar, leader of the Aceh Referendum Information Center (SIRA) who stands charged with sowing…
Agence France Presse - April 19, 2003
Five civilians have been killed in Indonesia's rebellious Aceh province, police and the military said.
The latest killings brought the death…
April 18, 2003
Straits Times - April 18, 2003
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has won critical support for "firm action on Aceh" that will likely include a military…
April 17, 2003
Jakarta Post - April 17, 2003
Banda Aceh – Muhammad Nazar, 27, chairman of the Information Center for an Aceh Referendum (SIRA), went on trial here on Thursday for…
Straits Times - April 17, 2003
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has begun preparations to launch a military operation in Aceh, ending a peace pact that has…
April 16, 2003
Jakarta Post - April 16, 2003
Banda Aceh – Marines killed three suspected separatist rebels in a gunfight at sea off East Aceh, Aceh military spokesman Firdaus…
Radio Australia - April 16, 2003
In a final bid to salvage Aceh's shaky peace pact, separatist rebels have agreed to meet with the Indonesian Government in Geneva next week. The…
April 15, 2003
Jakarta Post - April 15, 2003
Tiarna Siboro, Jakarta – Hopes for salvaging the Aceh peace agreement rose again on Monday after both the government and the Free Aceh Movement (…
April 14, 2003
Jakarta Post - April 14, 2003
Nani Farida and Arya Abhiseka, Banda Aceh – As fear was once again on the rise here, Acehnese leaders warned the government against launching a…
Reuters - April 14, 2003
Banda Aceh – Ginger farmer Sulaiman looks pensively across his fertile field in Indonesia's restive Aceh province, afraid fresh military…
April 13, 2003
Agence France Presse - April 13, 2003
Indonesia's longest and bloodiest conflict is in imminent danger of breaking out again, just four months after a peace agreement was signed to…
Laksamana.Net - April 13, 2003
In the weeks to come, President Megawati Sukarnoputri will face a crucial decision whether she will surrender to pressure from the military…
Agence France Presse - April 13, 2003
A 10-year-old girl has become the latest victim of violence in Aceh, where a four-month-old peace pact between the Indonesian government and…
April 11, 2003
Jakarta Post - April 11, 2003
Ardimas Sasdi, Jakarta – The process of ending hostilities in troubled Aceh, which has been underway for the last five months, has entered a new,…
Jakarta Post - April 11, 2003
Tiarma Siboro and Nani Farida, Jakarta – Hope for a peaceful solution to the Aceh issue faded on Thursday when the Free Aceh Movement (GAM)…
Reuters - April 11, 2003
Jakarta – Indonesia threatened yesterday to resume full combat operations in restive Aceh province as fresh clashes between troops and rebels…
April 10, 2003
Straits Times - April 10, 2003
Jakarta – Indonesia's army commander yesterday warned rebels in Aceh province to drop their independence bid or face a military…
Radio Australia - April 10, 2003
Indonesia's President Megawati Sukarnoputri is facing the apparent unravelling of the peace pact in Aceh province. Just four months after the…
April 9, 2003
Reuters - April 9, 2003
Banda Aceh – Indonesia's peace pact in Aceh suffered major blows on Tuesday when nine people were reported killed and peace monitors separately…
April 8, 2003
Associated Press - April 8, 2003
Banda Aceh – International peace monitors in Indonesia's Aceh province yesterday said they would withdraw from the south of the province after a…
Jakarta Post - April 8, 2003
Jakarta (Agencies) – Hundreds of people besieged a peace monitoring office in the restive province of Aceh on Monday, one day after a separate…
Radio Australia - April 8, 2003
The fragile peace pact in Indonesia's troubled Aceh province has come under further strain, with the office of an international peace monitoring…
April 6, 2003
Agence France Presse - April 6, 2003
A mob of some 1,000 people ransacked and torched a peace monitors' office in the troubled Indonesian province of Aceh, witnesses and a staff…
Agence France Presse - April 6, 2003
Indonesia's cabinet met to discuss the increasingly fragile ceasefire in Aceh's bloody separatist war, with the armed forces chief suggesting it…
April 5, 2003
Jakarta Post - April 5, 2003
Jakarta – In an outbreak of violence likely to raise concerns about the peace process in troubled Aceh province, security forces said…
Jakarta Post - April 5, 2003
Banda Aceh/Jakarta – The Free Aceh Movement (GAM) has called for a delay in the general elections in Aceh until after the holding of an all-…
April 4, 2003
Straits Times - April 4, 2003
Robert Go, Jakarta – The truce that Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) rebels signed last December is already showing wear and tear as…
Jakarta Post - April 4, 2003
Nani Farida and Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Banda Aceh/Jakarta – Violence continues to pose a threat to the five-month-old peace accord in Aceh as a…
Agence France Presse - April 4, 2003
The ceasefire in Aceh's separatist war looked fragile after Indonesian police shot dead three rebels in the seventh armed clash in a week.
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April 3, 2003
Radio Australia - April 3, 2003
Police in Indonesia say a Muslim hardliner believed to be close to the Jemaah Islamiah terrorist network has been reported as missing…
Associated Press - April 3, 2003
Jakarta – Indonesia's security minister has warned that a recent peace deal between the government and rebels in Aceh province could break down…
Jakarta Post - April 3, 2003
Nani Farida and Tiarma Siboro, Banda Aceh/Jakarta – Activists representing 41 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Aceh have launched a month-…
April 2, 2003
Radio Australia - April 2, 2003
Soldiers in Indonesia have killed two suspected rebels in the province of Aceh.
A police official says the two Free Aceh…
March 30, 2003
Jakarta Post - March 30, 2003
Banda Aceh – A separatist rebel hacked a soldier to death with a machete before being shot dead in the troubled Aceh province, the…
March 29, 2003
Jakarta Post - March 29, 2003
Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The Henry Dunant Centre (HDC) has warned the Indonesian Military (TNI) and Free Aceh Movement (GAM) against reinforcing…
Jakarta Post - March 29, 2003
Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Thousands of people who claim to be Acehnese refugees ignored North Sumatra governor T. Rizal Nurdin's ultimatum to leave…
March 28, 2003
Radio Australia - March 28, 2003
Amnesty International says two human rights activists in Indonesia's Aceh province are believed to be being held by the military and…
Radio Australia - March 28, 2003
There are fears in Jakarta that the war in Iraq is diverting attention from a conflict much closer to home – in the province of Aceh. Under a…
Jakarta Post - March 28, 2003
Medan – Hundreds of angry refugees from war-torn Aceh prevented North Sumatra Governor T. Rizal Nurdin and all provincial councillors…
March 27, 2003
Straits Times - March 27, 2003
Jakarta – More than 36 billion rupiah meant for the Acehnese refugees has been embezzled allegedly by officials who also stole other forms of aid…
March 25, 2003
Jakarta Post - March 25, 2003
Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – Despite allegations infamous pro-Jakarta militia Laskar Jihad are waging a "holy war" against pro-independence forces in…
March 21, 2003
Straits Times - March 21, 2003
Banda Aceh – The Free Aceh Movement has accused the Indonesian military (TNI) of trying to undermine a peace agreement by getting…
Jakarta Post - March 21, 2003
Nani Farida, Banda Aceh/Jakarta – Acehnese people have lambasted the Joint Security Committee (JSC) enforcing the cessation of hostilities…
March 18, 2003
Jakarta Post - March 18, 2003
Muninggar Sri Saraswati and Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – The government has moved to consult the House of Representatives (DPR) to decide on…