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April 8, 2003

Associated Press - April 8, 2003

Banda Aceh – International peace monitors in Indonesia's Aceh province yesterday said they would withdraw from the south of the province after a…

April 6, 2003

Agence France Presse - April 6, 2003

A mob of some 1,000 people ransacked and torched a peace monitors' office in the troubled Indonesian province of Aceh, witnesses and a staff…

Agence France Presse - April 6, 2003

Indonesia's cabinet met to discuss the increasingly fragile ceasefire in Aceh's bloody separatist war, with the armed forces chief suggesting it…

April 5, 2003

Jakarta Post - April 5, 2003

Jakarta – In an outbreak of violence likely to raise concerns about the peace process in troubled Aceh province, security forces said…

Jakarta Post - April 5, 2003

Banda Aceh/Jakarta – The Free Aceh Movement (GAM) has called for a delay in the general elections in Aceh until after the holding of an all-…

April 4, 2003

Straits Times - April 4, 2003

Robert Go, Jakarta – The truce that Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) rebels signed last December is already showing wear and tear as…

Jakarta Post - April 4, 2003

Nani Farida and Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Banda Aceh/Jakarta – Violence continues to pose a threat to the five-month-old peace accord in Aceh as a…

Agence France Presse - April 4, 2003

The ceasefire in Aceh's separatist war looked fragile after Indonesian police shot dead three rebels in the seventh armed clash in a week.

April 3, 2003

Jakarta Post - April 3, 2003

Nani Farida and Tiarma Siboro, Banda Aceh/Jakarta – Activists representing 41 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Aceh have launched a month-…

Associated Press - April 3, 2003

Jakarta – Indonesia's security minister has warned that a recent peace deal between the government and rebels in Aceh province could break down…

Radio Australia - April 3, 2003

Police in Indonesia say a Muslim hardliner believed to be close to the Jemaah Islamiah terrorist network has been reported as missing…

April 2, 2003

Radio Australia - April 2, 2003

Soldiers in Indonesia have killed two suspected rebels in the province of Aceh.

A police official says the two Free Aceh…

March 30, 2003

Jakarta Post - March 30, 2003

Banda Aceh – A separatist rebel hacked a soldier to death with a machete before being shot dead in the troubled Aceh province, the…

March 29, 2003

Jakarta Post - March 29, 2003

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The Henry Dunant Centre (HDC) has warned the Indonesian Military (TNI) and Free Aceh Movement (GAM) against reinforcing…

Jakarta Post - March 29, 2003

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Thousands of people who claim to be Acehnese refugees ignored North Sumatra governor T. Rizal Nurdin's ultimatum to leave…

March 28, 2003

Radio Australia - March 28, 2003

Amnesty International says two human rights activists in Indonesia's Aceh province are believed to be being held by the military and…

Radio Australia - March 28, 2003

There are fears in Jakarta that the war in Iraq is diverting attention from a conflict much closer to home – in the province of Aceh. Under a…

Jakarta Post - March 28, 2003

Medan – Hundreds of angry refugees from war-torn Aceh prevented North Sumatra Governor T. Rizal Nurdin and all provincial councillors…

March 27, 2003

Straits Times - March 27, 2003

Jakarta – More than 36 billion rupiah meant for the Acehnese refugees has been embezzled allegedly by officials who also stole other forms of aid…

March 25, 2003

Jakarta Post - March 25, 2003

Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – Despite allegations infamous pro-Jakarta militia Laskar Jihad are waging a "holy war" against pro-independence forces in…

March 21, 2003

Jakarta Post - March 21, 2003

Nani Farida, Banda Aceh/Jakarta – Acehnese people have lambasted the Joint Security Committee (JSC) enforcing the cessation of hostilities…

Straits Times - March 21, 2003

Banda Aceh – The Free Aceh Movement has accused the Indonesian military (TNI) of trying to undermine a peace agreement by getting…

March 18, 2003

Jakarta Post - March 18, 2003

Apriadi Gunawan, Jakarta – A 12-day-long protest by 600 Acehnese transmigrant refugees over the slow disbursement of resettlement funds has…

Jakarta Post - March 18, 2003

Muninggar Sri Saraswati and Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – The government has moved to consult the House of Representatives (DPR) to decide on…

March 17, 2003

Jakarta Post - March 17, 2003

Ibnu Matnoor, Banda Aceh – The killing of four Acehnese in the latest spree of violence on Saturday has increased the distrust between the…

March 15, 2003

Agence France Presse - March 15, 2003

Three Indonesian policemen were wounded in the latest skirmish with rebels despite a ceasefire agreement in Aceh province, police said.

March 12, 2003

Jakarta Post - March 12, 2003

Banda Aceh – Eight Indonesian student activists said here Monday they have begun a hunger strike to demand freedom of speech in the…

March 8, 2003

Jakarta Post - March 8, 2003

Jakarta – A fact-finding team of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) have discovered that the local military was…

March 6, 2003

Jakarta Post - March 6, 2003

Jakarta – Army chief Gen. Ryamizard Ryacudu said the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) is not only an enemy of the Indonesian Military (TNI),…

March 5, 2003

Green Left Weekly - March 5, 2003

Pip Hinman – Australia-based Scottish academic Lesley McCulloch and US nurse Joy-Lee Sadler were arrested in Indonesian-occupied south Aceh on…

March 4, 2003

Agence France Presse - March 4, 2003

Aceh separatist rebels have accused Indonesian security forces of condoning a militia attack on the office of a peace monitoring team in hopes of…

Reuters - March 4, 2003

Banda Aceh – Indonesia's first Islamic courts for criminal cases were opened in the staunchly Muslim Aceh province on Tuesday as part of efforts…

Straits Times - March 4, 2003

Banda Aceh – A mob yesterday attacked the office of an international peace monitoring team in Aceh, injuring one Indonesian soldier and one rebel…

March 3, 2003

Reuters - March 3, 2003

Jakarta – Nearly 4,000 angry Acehnese surrounded an office staffed by peace monitors including three Thai soldiers in the restive Indonesian…

March 1, 2003

Agence France Presse - March 1, 2003

Jakarta – A ceasefire in Aceh's bloody separatist war is already looking shaky and major issues must be settled to salvage what could be the last…

February 28, 2003

Jakarta Post - February 28, 2003

Martin Griffiths – On Sundays at the beach in Lampu near Banda Aceh, young couples stroll across the sand holding hands, laughing and flirting.…

February 26, 2003

Jakarta Post - February 26, 2003

Jakarta – Aceh province will inaugurate its first Islamic sharia court on March 4 as part of the broad autonomy granted to curb…

Radio Australia - February 26, 2003

A group mediating a peace pact between the Indonesian government and separatists in Aceh province, plans to deploy 15 personnel to…

Green Left Weekly - February 26, 2003

Iggy Kim – The Indonesian government has again violated the December 10 Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (COHA). The agreement was supposed to…

February 24, 2003

Jakarta Post - February 24, 2003

Jakarta – The military on Monday denied accusations by the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) that troops had raided a rebel base in…

Radio Australia - February 24, 2003

The separatist Free Aceh Movement in Indonesia's restive province of Aceh has accused government forces of several serious violations…

February 22, 2003

Agence France Presse - February 22, 2003

Banda Aceh – Twelve days have passed since the crucial "demilitarisation" phase of the Aceh agreement but separatist rebels have not…

February 20, 2003

ASAP media release - February 20, 2003

Over the past week in Aceh, Indonesia has repeatedly violated the December 10 Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (COHA), arresting civil movement…

February 17, 2003

Associated Press - February 17, 2003

Banda Aceh – Government troops and rebels in Aceh are both guilty of serious breaches of a recent peace deal, the Swiss-based group mediating the…

February 15, 2003

Jakarta Post - February 15, 2003

Aceh – The police in Banda Aceh are still pursuing a prodemocracy activist Kautsar who mobilized Acehnese to go on strike recently…

February 12, 2003

Agence France Presse - February 12, 2003

Indonesian police have arrested a leading pro-independence activist in Aceh province after accusing him of organising an unauthorised rally.

February 11, 2003

ASAP Statement - February 11, 2003

Aceh arrests and attacks expose sham of Indonesia's commitment to peace process

Over the past week in Aceh, Indonesia has repeatedly…

Jakarta Post - February 11, 2003

Nani Farida and Ibnu Matnoor, Aceh – The Joint Security Committee (JSC) named on Monday six new peace zones to shore up the fragile peace deal…

Agence France Presse - February 11, 2003

Separatist rebels in Indonesia's Aceh said they have begun disarming as part of a peace deal but warned that the military must relocate its troops…

February 10, 2003

Radio Australia - February 10, 2003

After five months jail in an Indonesian prison, Australian academic Lesley McCulloch has been finally been released. The British-born McCulloch…