Dian Intannia, Jakarta – Army chief (KSAD) General Ryamizard Ryacudu says that reducing the status of Aceh from martial law to a state of civil emergency will not change the way securit

Most of the nearly 150 people freed by separatist rebels in Aceh province this week were not hostages but people rounded up from around the release site, Indonesia's military says.

Authorities in the restive Indonesian provice of Aceh have transferred 171 convicted separatist rebels to jails on neighbouring Java island, prison officials said. A.C.

Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – The clock reads 11 p.m. but residents of the capital Banda Aceh are still crisscrossing the streets.

Nur Raihan, Banda Aceh – As may as 1000 students from the Ar-Raniry Darussalam State Institute of Islamic Studies and the Muhammadyah University along with hundreds of residents of Band

Banda Aceh – On Monday May 17, demonstrations calling for the governor of Aceh, Abdullah Puteh, to resign from his post took place in three separate locations in Aceh.

Banda Aceh – There were few signs of joy in Indonesia's rebellious Aceh province on Friday, a day after Jakarta decided to end military rule there but continue operations against separa

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – The legislature is questioning the disbursement of Rp 738 billion (US$86.8 million) for the military operation in Aceh since December amid allegations of wides

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Commentators gave the cold shoulder to the government's decision to revoke the martial law status of Aceh and declare a state of civil emergency, saying the pol

Anton Aliabbas, Jakarta - The Free Aceh Movement (GAM) says that the government's decision to reduce the status of martial law in Aceh to a state of civil emergency is not enough.

Banda Aceh – Politicians and human rights activists in Indonesia's strife-torn Aceh province welcomed the end of martial law here Friday, expressing hope it would lead to a new war on c

Jakarta – Indonesia's decision this week to lift martial law in war-torn Aceh has arguably pleased no one.

Indonesia has decided to lift military rule in Aceh, just under a year since martial law was imposed.

Indonesia said it will end martial law which has been in force in Aceh province for the past year while troops battled separatist guerrillas.

Robert Go, Jakarta – The government, citing an improved security situation, has downgraded Aceh's martial law status to a civil emergency and will return the conflict-torn province to c

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M.Ilaham, Jakarta – Thousands of Acehnese who are residing in Jakarta held a series of demonstrations at the offices of the coordinating minister of politics and security, the president

Jakarta – Fierce rebel fighting has left four suspected rebels and a soldier dead in separate clashes in Indonesia's Aceh province, an army spokesman said Tuesday.

Although the sound of grenades that exploded in Aceh did not reach Jakarta, it does not mean that the capital does not suffer from the consequences of the conflict there.

Khairul, Banda Aceh – The head of the Pidie regional military command (Kodim), Infantry Lieutenant Rochim Siregar, has been forcing all village heads to come to the Kodim headquarters w

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Tiarma Siboro and Nani Farida, Jakarta/Banda Aceh – The Indonesian Military (TNI) acknowledged on Wednesday that troops in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam were guilty of hundreds of violations

Alisa P, Banda Aceh – According Acehnese People's Democratic Resistance Front (FPDRA) chairperson, Thamrin Ananda, the plan by the interim coordinating minister for politics and securit

Kurniawan Hari and Nani Farida, Jakarta/Banda Aceh – House of Representatives members have thrown their weight behind the Aceh Prosecutor's Office tackling several corruption cases alle

Jakarta – At least 50 teachers assigned to the province of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) have been killed in the armed conflict there between 1999 and 2003.

Jakarta – While some officials claim that militants who raided armories in southern Thailand are selling weapons to rebels in Indonesia's neighboring Aceh province, an expert said Monda

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) submitted to the government on Friday reports of human rights abuses since martial law was declared last Ma

Banda Aceh – Military troops rescued two boatmen held by Aceh separatist rebels on Friday, a military spokesman revealed on Saturday.

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – The House of Representatives (DPR) is likely to recommend the government lower martial law in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam to a state of civil emergency, given imp

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Coordinating minister for political and security affairs ad interim Hari Sabarno chaired a closed-door coordination meeting at the Indonesian Military (TNI) on

Luhur Hertanto, Jakarta – The Center for Electoral Reform (Cetro) is to lodge a complaint with the Constitutional Court over intervention by the Aceh Emergency Military Command (PDMD) i

Jakarta – Researcher George Aditjondro blamed on Monday Acehnese activists for fleeing their homeland and failing to provide the press with information on what was really happening in t

Teuku Agam Muzakir, Lhokseumawe – Around 2,000 people here staged a rally on Thursday, demanding that martial law, which was strongly opposed by a number of human rights groups, be furt

Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – Aceh is not just about the bloody prolonged fighting between separatist rebels and the Indonesian Military, with all of the unrecorded brutalities and countles

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Teuku Agam Muzakir, Lhokseumawe – Entering Buket Nibong village in Jrat Manyang subdistrict, Tanah Jambo Aye district, North Aceh regency, is like being in a no-man's-land.

Jakarta – The International Federation of Journalists has reiterated its demand for the release of RCTI television cameraman, Fery Santoro, who has spent almost 10 months as a hostage o

Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – The newly formed national anticorruption body is seeking to question Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Governor Abdullah Puteh for his alleged role in graft cases as lo

Banda Aceh – Separatist rebels have ambushed and killed three Indonesian soldiers in Aceh province, a report said Tuesday.

Jakarta – The Indonesian government will soon re-evaluate whether it is necessary to maintain martial law in the war-torn province of Aceh, a senior cabinet minister said Monday.

Jakarta – The Indonesian military has rescued 124 people taken hostage by separatist rebels in Aceh province since the start of a military offensive last year but 260 civilians are stil

Banda Aceh – Indonesia's military has reduced separatist rebel strength in Aceh by 60 percent, the province's martial law commander said Monday as the army claimed the deaths of 22 susp

Nur Raihan, Banda Aceh – The Aceh Emergency Military Commander, Major General Endang Suwarya says that Free Aceh Movement (GAM) forces have been rescued to 40 per cent.

Banda Aceh – The military shot dead two separatist rebels and a government soldier died in a hostage crisis in restive Aceh province, the military and witnesses said on Saturday.

Banda Aceh – At least six people, including four separatist rebels, were killed in the latest violence in the restive province of Aceh, the military said Friday.

Miswar, Banda Aceh – The tabloid Beudoh, which was closed by the Aceh emergency military command (PDMD) because it ran an lead article titled "Acehnese People Don't Need Elections Under

Alisa P, Bireun – An Aceh Ulama (Islamic religious leader), Teuku Haji Aldelani, the son-in-law of the most outspoken Ulama in Aceh, T.H.

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Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Police on Tuesday arrested six suspects they said were part of a network of Aceh separatists involved in an abortive attempt to bomb a mall here last month.

Alisa P., Jakarta – Martial law in Aceh has entered its 10th month, and has consumed huge numbers of civilian casualties.