Indonesia's Aceh votes to decide life after war
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GAMPONG COT, Indonesia  - Acehnese poured into polling stations on Monday to vote in a landmark election in the once-rebellious Indonesian province aimed at bolstering a peace deal between the government and separatists.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Leaders in the  international tsunami aid effort expressed concern about how  curbs on the movement of workers and a deadline for foreign  troops to leave would affect relief in Indonesia's worst-hit  Aceh province.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Many desperate families  in Indonesia's Aceh province are turning to traditional magic  men to learn the fate of loved ones still missing more than six  weeks after the Asian tsunami.
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Prospects for peace in Indonesia's war-torn and tsunami-hit Aceh province were lifted by an offer of talks from separatist rebels, but tensions continued to overshadow efforts to aid disaster victims.
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HELSINKI, Sep 20 (IPS) - "Amid all the destruction and loss the mood was  high. People were making bricks, digging  fishponds, building  fishing boats. And people were sitting in coffee shops late into  the night  just as if there had never been any war." This is  how Mahmoud Malik, leader of the rebel  movement of the  Indonesian province Aceh described returning home in April this  year after  more than 30 years' exile.
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Soon after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami Sunday that have claimed the lives of at least 80,000 people in northern Indonesia, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono traveled to the stricken province of Aceh.
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Former President Ahtisaari meets with both sides of Aceh dispute Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari met with representatives of the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), who arrived in ...
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia's tsunami-hit  Aceh province is rebounding so well from the disaster that  emergency relief work could wind up fairly quickly, a senior  international aid official said Monday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia will soon set the ball rolling to allow former rebels in Aceh to establish a political party and join the mainstream in the once volatile province, a top peace monitor said on Saturday.
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Indonesia will seek a peace deal to end a long-running separatist war on Aceh province where most of the 163,000 deaths from last month's Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunamis occurred, Vice President Yusuf Kalla said.
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Before last year's peace deal, Cek Bi used to lie awake at night listening to gunfire rattling through her village. Now, she hopes Monday's elections will make the truce between the government and rebels in Indonesia's Aceh province permanent.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The largest peacetime  relief effort in history struggled on Friday to reach  black-hole areas of Indonesia's Aceh, while doctors, troops and  relief workers raced to keep tsunami survivors alive.
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Elections in Indonesia's tsunami-devastated Aceh province have swept a former rebel leader to victory, unofficial results show as officials tot up the ballots.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A Europe-led mission monitoring a peace pact in Indonesia's Aceh province has no plans to extend its stay beyond December 15, the group's chief said on Saturday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Saturday that Indonesia's Aceh province needed full recovery from both the deadly tsunami of 2005 and decades of civil conflict, urging follow-through on elections and a peace plan.
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Indonesia has decided to extend  emergency rule in its troubled province of Aceh, where  thousands of people have died in a rebellion, a newspaper said  Saturday.
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Indonesian officials plan to reopen negotiations with separatist rebels in Aceh by the end of this month, building on an informal truce that took hold after the province was battered by  the tsunami last month, Foreign Minister Noer Hassan Wirajuda said Wednesday.