Adi Warsidi, Jakarta – Thousands of female protesters took to the streets in Aceh Province on Monday (8/2) to demand the release of remaining political prisoners in government prisons, criticising the government for failing to complete one of the deals in the the 2005 peace accord with with the Free Aceh Movement.

Rally coordinator Nurmansyah Ali said there are three Aceh political prisoners who remains in government prisons, one of them in Cipinang Penitentiary, and two of them in Tangerang narcotic prison outside Jakarta.

They demand immediate unconditional release of the three men and urged regional legislative body to help push the central government over the matter.

Protesters reminded the government that Aceh political prisoners were automatically free upon the signings of the peace agreement, which stipulates that all prisoners arrested in relation with the conflict should be released within 15 days.