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...thing that isn't being given a chance in Aceh is peace. In 1999 and 2000, a group called the Information Center for a Referendum in Aceh (sira) organized giant rallies calling on Jakarta to hold an East Timor-type referendum on independence for the province. sira was led by former student Muhammad Nazar, who was tried for sedition because of the rallies and given a 10-month jail sentence last month. "The violence in Aceh is increasing as part of a military and police effort to undermine the negotiating process," says Nazar, whose current residence is the Banda Aceh...
...East Timor proved, the Indonesian military isn't good at winning hearts and minds. Over the past two years GAM has fast expanded its support base among a population jaded by decades of military repression and Jakarta's exploitation of the province's natural resources. Talks in Geneva last June between GAM's leadership-in-exile in Sweden and the government brought about a cease-fire arrangement known as a "humanitarian pause," which has been extended more than once. But the military believe that the frequently breached cease-fires have only given GAM room to strengthen its position...
They could be right. Founded in 1976 by Hasan di Tiro, last scion of the precolonial sultanate, GAM was the target of a protracted military campaign between 1989 and 1998. Jakarta called them "regional military operations," but in Aceh they were marked by assassinations and "disappearances" of the South American sort. Some 6,000-7,000 GAM suspected activists were killed, and the group was severely depleted...
...deputies. But there is also a splinter group known as the Government Council of the Free Aceh Movement, or MP-GAM in its Indonesian acronym. Led from Europe by Husaini Hasan, the MP-GAM has declared itself opposed to armed struggle and favors some form of autonomy within Indonesia. Jakarta has raised a force of several hundred Acehnese under the MP-GAM banner, paying them to operate alongside the security forces? a setup very reminiscent of the militias that wreaked such havoc in East Timor...
...need to think regionally. Ideally, you should think globally." A global image helps sell products, even if no one but Filipinos would ever want to buy duck-fetus eggs or Thais the most pungent variety of shrimp paste. Yanto Zainal, president of Macs909, a boutique ad agency in Jakarta, used all indos for a campaign for the local Matahari department store chain. "The store wanted to promote a more cosmopolitan image," he says. "Indos have an international look but can still be accepted as Indonesian...