Nick Gentle, Banda Aceh – Out of all the countries affected by the Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami, Indonesia was dealt the heaviest blows, and now the country is facing up to the most daunting rebuilding task.

Indonesia hopes to sign a peace deal ending three decades of conflict with separatists in Aceh province in July, its vice president said in an interview.

Vice President Yusuf Kalla expressed optimism over the peace process ahead of a third round of talks due to get under way in Finland next week.

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – A top-level government delegation will hold a third-round of peace talks with officials of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in Finland next week in a bid to seek a peaceful way to end nearly three decades of armed conflict in Aceh.

Nick Gentle, Banda Aceh – Darmin's first catch since the tsunami is a good one.

In a little less than 12 hours, the three-man crew of his eight-metre fishing boat has hauled in more than a tonne of tuna, mahi-mahi and something the locals call cakalang – all good-eating fish worth up to 60,000 rupiah ($50) apiece when they get to the local fish market.

Indonesia's Aceh province has just marked 100 days since the Tsunami last December in which more than 120,000 Indonesians died. Oxfam International says of those killed, 80% were women and this has created a new gender imbalance in Aceh.

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Jakarta – An Acehnese forum here on Friday criticized the newly issued blueprint for the reconstruction of Aceh, calling it incomplete.

The blueprint required major revisions in order for the reconstruction work to focus on human development, added the Aceh Recovery Forum (ARF) for 10 working groups in the province.

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) said on Thursday it was facing difficulties in auditing the use of humanitarian funds in Aceh due to the presence of more than one authority in charge of the funds.

Indonesia's former chief peace negotiator in Aceh agrees that now is the best, perhaps the only, chance for a peaceful end to the 30 year conflict. Wiryono Sastrohandoyo is a former Ambassador to Australia and was Indonesia's chief negotiator in ceasefire talks with the Free Aceh rebels in 2002.

Hera Diani, Jakarta – The government is being urged to design a clear policy framework for the reconstruction of tsunami-devastated Aceh, particularly one that is based on the participation of the Acehnese people.

Banda Aceh (Reuters) – Women in Indonesia's devastated Aceh province who lost their homes in the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami face sexual attacks in relief camps, Oxfam said, as it warned of long-term social dislocation.

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Three months after the tsunami hit Aceh on Dec. 26, many Acehnese dread the departure of foreign aid workers, as they are not yet confident of making it on their own.

Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – The reconstruction of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and the surrounding tsunami-stricken areas will be able to start in the immediate future now that the government has completed the final draft of its blueprint for rehabilitation in the province.

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – A Banda Aceh military court on Wednesday sentenced Capt. T. Syuib Mahmud to three months jail for assaulting activist Farid Faqih, who is currently in custody for allegedly stealing donated items destined for tsunami victims in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam.

Indonesia says it will provide evidence to Canberra that Australian-funded aid groups are helping separatists in Aceh and Papua.

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Just days after the government extended the deadline for all foreigners to leave Aceh by March 26, an immigration official said on Tuesday some 1,175 foreigners have to leave the province to get their visas-on-arrival renewed.

Timothy Mapes, Jakarta – As Indonesia embarks on a massive effort to rebuild swaths of Aceh province wiped out by the Dec. 26 tsunami, government officials say coordination is being complicated by foreign agencies' focus on shielding their aid from corruption.

Aguswandi, London – It is almost impossible to imagine what the lives of tsunami survivors is like. Not only have they lost many members of their families and all their worldly goods, but they will have to try and rebuild a life in an ongoing conflict area that is little more than a man-made disaster.

Indonesia has backed down on a threat to expel foreign aid workers from Aceh, granting them a two-month extension to continue relief efforts.

Police in Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh province will rejoin the military pursuit of separatists because the rebels have started regrouping.

Mulia – When Sofyan Mahdi needed crushed cars removed from his tsunami-devastated neighborhood last month, he called the United Nations, which quickly took care of the problem. By contrast, it took 10 trips to Indonesia's state utility to get electricity, and he is still waiting for local officials to fix the water system.

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Rudy, a Banda Aceh resident, breathes a sigh of relief. He has just acquired a document that substitutes for his land title certificate that was lost as a result of the tsunami on Dec. 26 last year. For Rudy, the substitute land title certificate is very important, as it is all his family has left. The family's house was leveled by the disaster.

Sydney – A new report from Australia's aid watchdog AID/WATCH, 'International Response to the Indian Ocean Disaster. A Donor Analysis: Focus on Australia', finds that the $1 billion tsunami aid package from Australia is not as generous as most Australians had expected.

The report launched on the eve of the Indonesia-Australia summit finds:

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – A government decision to restrict the presence of international aid agencies in Aceh would force them to abandon their unfinished work in the province just as it started to return to some semblance of normalcy nearly four months after December's devastating tsunami.

Matthew Benns – Eighty-two days after the tsunami swept through Indonesia, bureaucrats will finally sit down to work out how to spend the billion Australia has pledged in aid.

Australian and Indonesian officials meet on Thursday amid warnings that the money could turn into "boomerang aid" where the cash ends up in the pockets of wealthy Australian companies.

Jakarta/Banda Aceh – Confusion surfaced on Friday as top government officials issued conflicting statements over whether the presence of foreign aid agencies, including non-governmental organizations, and journalists in tsunami-ravaged Aceh would be limited.

Leony Aurora, Lhokseumawe – The situation just outside Lhokseumawe in the northern part of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam is not as gloomy as you might imagine.

Students ride their bicycles home through green paddy fields. The landscape bears no scars, it is picture-perfect as though the tsunami had passed it by.

Matthew Moore, Jakarta/Mark Forbes, Canberra – The Federal Government rejects a plea to give Indonesia more control over international relief money pledged for the reconstruction of Aceh.

Yuliawati, Jakarta – The People's Representative Assembly's Natural Disaster Relief Monitoring Team in Aceh and North Sumatra is asking the government to reconsider the presence of foreign volunteers so that they can remain in Indonesia longer.

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Hundreds of people from 14 villages in Aceh Besar regency and Banda Aceh municipality gathered in Lam Isiek village here on Tuesday to pledge to rebuild their homes, which were destroyed by the tsunami.

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – The Indonesian Government has decided staff of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees will be allowed to remain in Aceh province after March 26 to continue reconstruction work helping victims of the tsunami.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A group of people, claiming to be representatives of the Aceh people, stepped up pressure on the government on Monday to review its blueprint on post-tsunami rehabilitation and reconstruction of Aceh.

Jakarta – Despite the government ban, out-of-court adoptions of children living in refugee camps across tsunami-stricken Aceh remain a cause for concern and could actually be child smuggling, a children's commission says.

Government's decision to continue the civil emergency status and the joint operation (security recovery operation) in Aceh is actually a part of civil emergency in Aceh. This was stated by the Coordinating Minister of Politics, Law, and Security – Widodo AS – after leaving from the coordination meeting on politics, law, and security.

An Australian academic banned from Indonesia said yesterday that incorrect reports he had links to separatist rebels in Aceh province could have been the reason he was refused entry this week.

Tiarma Siboro and Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Survivors of last December's tsunami asked the Aceh authorities on Friday to review their new policy of restricting the number of foreigners who have been helping them after the devastating catastrophe.

Shawn Donnan, Jakarta – Indonesia is considering asking the UNHCR to leave Aceh by the end of this month, saying the United Nations refugee agency may have outlived its usefulness and may be straying outside its mandate in the tsunami-stricken province.

Jakarta – Indonesia's military said Saturday it killed 30 separatist rebels in tsunami-ravaged Aceh province in the space of a week. The development threatened a fragile truce agreed on after the Dec. 26 natural disaster.

Tiarma Siboro and Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Acehnese are set to bid farewell to thousands of foreigners who have been sharing their tribulations following the tsunami catastrophe.

Starting March 26, only a limited number of foreigners will be allowed to stay, the National Police's Aceh task force announced on Thursday.

Richel Dursin, Jakarta – A government plan to cut down more trees in one of the largest national parks in Indonesia to help rebuild tsunami-ravaged Aceh has drawn opposition from environmentalists and officials in the country's Forestry Ministry, who claim that the plan could worsen illegal logging in the country.

The end of the meeting was described as warm and full of understanding. One day before the end of the talks, the Prime Minister of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) gave a speech. His voice was calm and measured. He spoke on behalf of Teungku Hasan di Tiro, the "honorable head of state," now based in Sweden.

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Melly Febrida, Jakarta – Armed forces (TNI) chief Endriartono Sutarto has guaranteed that recent peace negotiations which are being organised between the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) will not influence the operation to restore security in Aceh.

Australia will rebuild Indonesian immigration offices in the tsunami-shattered province of Aceh to improve ties between the countries and bolster the fight against people-smuggling, Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone said.

Andreas Harsono – One early morning in January, when Hotli Simandjuntak drew water from a well outside a house in Banda Aceh, he was complaining about some messages he had received from his Global TV editors in Jakarta. "They grumbled about having no official quotes on the beating of Farid Faqih. How important is Farid in Jakarta?

Muninggar Sri Saraswati and Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The government is considering modifications to the implementation of special autonomy in Aceh to put an end to three decades of rebellion in the province.

Banda Aceh – Entering its third month, indications of corruption in the handling of the disaster in Aceh are starting to be uncovered.

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The government expects to reach a peace accord with the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in June or July after two rounds of talks to settle 32 years of conflict in the province.

If a peace deal is struck, there is a possibility that GAM will contest the regional election.

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – The second round of talks to end 29 years of conflict in Aceh has ended with the separatist rebels successfully positioning themselves as moderates prepared to modify their long-held demand for independence.

Jakarta – Indonesia's president praised Thursday the progress made in peace talks between government negotiators and separatist rebels from tsunami-wracked Aceh province, but he cautioned that a speedy solution to the three-decades-long conflict was unlikely.

Abdul Khalik, Banda Aceh – Standing in front of his ruined house in Lampu'uk, Lhoknga in Aceh Besar regency, 35-year-old Effendi expressed his determination to stay and rebuild his house no matter what.