Banda Aceh – Former rebels in Indonesia's Aceh today surrendered enough weapons in a final disarmament process to meet the total required under a historic peace pact with the Government, a foreign monitor said.

The rebels surrendered 35 more weapons, meeting the terms of the August pact signed with the Government in Helsinki and seen as the best chance yet of ending three decades of bloodshed in Indonesia's westernmost province.

Today's handover took place in the Lhong Raya football stadium in Banda Aceh, said Juri Laas from the Aceh Monitoring Mission, a foreign monitoring team mandated to oversee the implementation of the peace pact.

Under the pact, former Free Aceh Movement (GAM) fighters were to hand over their declared arsenal of 840 firearms.