Bullets to Ballots: Aceh in 2009  

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Hillman, Ben

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Far Eastern Economic Review vol. 172 no. 10 (Dec. 2009), page 32.
Topik: Aceh; Tsunami; The Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Agency for Aceh and Nias (BRR); Free Aceh Movement (GAM)

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Five years after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004, little trace of the disaster remains. The Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Agency for Aceh and Nias (BRR) wound up operations in May, and policy makers have shifted attention to the Indonesian province's longer-term development challenges. Aceh's future progress now depends on recovery from a different type of crisis—the three-decades-long civil war between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the government of Indonesia that was still raging when the tsunami struck. By shifting the order of needs and placing the province under the international spotlight, the tsunami had a catalytic effect on peace negotiations. During the first few months of tsunami recovery work, a political solution to the conflict began to look possible. At talks brokered by former Finnish President Martti Ahtisari, GAM indicated willingness, for the first time, to abandon separatist demands in return for greater autonomy and a role in governing the province. But peace talks nearly collapsed over how the former rebels would be given a role in governing the province. Government negotiators offered to appoint rebels to senior local government posts and suggested that former rebels run as national party candidates in local elections. But GAM leaders demanded the right to form their own local political party in Aceh. This was politically very tricky for a country with a historical aversion to local political parties; antipathy harks back to the 1950s when regional parties were blamed for the collapse of parliamentary democracy and the rise of strongman authoritarianism. Since Indonesia's return to democracy in 1999, only avowed national parties have been allowed to contest elections. Political parties must maintain branches in 60% of the country's provinces and in 50% of districts and municipalities within those provinces. Local parties are prohibited from contesting even local elections.

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