Vaudine England (Jakarta) and Associated Press (Banda Aceh) – As President Abdurrahman Wahid left yesterday on another foreign trip – this time to Kuwait – Acehnese activists and investigators in Jakarta were increasingly impatient at his "inaction".

Separatist passions are running high in Aceh as the Indonesian military refuses to offer its people for civilian trials and its desire to impose martial law in Aceh remains strong.

In continuing unrest, six people, including two policemen, were found dead as gunmen torched buildings, police said yesterday.

The bodies of the two policemen and two unidentified civilians were found on Sunday in a swamp in southern Aceh. On Saturday, a civilian was shot dead near his house in the west of the province, while another was killed in central Aceh. Gunmen also burned down seven school buildings and five government offices.

Caught in the middle is the Independent Commission on Aceh, which has waited nearly two weeks since its meeting with Mr Wahid, with no steps being taken towards the promised trials of military violators of human rights.

At the same time, intelligence sources claim that key members of the leadership of the separatist Free Aceh Movement are due to arrive in Aceh on November 27, including the movement's nominal leader, Hasan di Tiro, if he is well enough to travel.

The sources said that Huzaini, a more active leader of the movement abroad, is to be part of the delegation, along with a foreign supporter of the movement.

Said Adnan, the movement's commander for the North Aceh Regency, said yesterday the rebels had been training young Acehnese in villages for the past two months, ready for a war of independence.

Reports also claim that all Acehnese would be required to fly the Acehnese flag – red and black with a half moon and star – on December 2, before the movement's declaration of independence on December 4.

Unconfirmed reports from Aceh also say that staff members at the state telecommunications and electricity installations in Aceh are being pressured to leave, as part of a plan by the movement to isolate the newly "independent" province.

More reliable assessments by analysts in Jakarta confirm that in many villages throughout Aceh, the movement is already in effective control of local administration, such as collecting local taxes and issuing permits.

"[The movement] is establishing parallel governments in the villages," said a political analyst attached to Jakarta's Centre for Strategic and International Studies. "They've been left all alone by the central Government and are filling the gaps."