I know little about this area of the world, but there was quite a bit of hope, after the tsunami, of peace of a sorts in the region. Not surprisingly, there is still a lot of work to do, though.

From the BBC:

One year has passed since the Indonesian government and separatist rebels from the Free Aceh Movement (Gam) signed a peace deal to end nearly three decades of fighting in the province.

Here people from across Aceh give their assessment of the year so far.

Excerpts from a few… read the full comments at the BBC site.
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M KAHAR, TEACHER IN AN ISLAMIC SCHOOL, BANDA ACEH

Life is very good these days. We are very happy because of the ceasefire and wherever we go now, we feel this happiness.

There is no longer any fear in our region because there is such a thing as peace.

Before the peace agreement of last year, we would be afraid when travelling the roads outside Banda Aceh.

Now, we can go everywhere and the violence we used to see in our district is no more.
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IRAWAN ABDULLAH, POLITICIAN, ACEH

Promises have not been fulfilled.

The Indonesian government and Gam have different perceptions of the results of the negotiations of last year. Gam was hoping for more powers, more recognition, but they never got it.

After years of war and the tsunami, there was finally hope for Aceh. There was hope that our people could be better educated, would get a chance to progress.

But I see little of that now.

I feel that the government of Indonesia has broken its promises to Aceh.

Aceh has no money, we don’t have enough local power to make decisions about the money that is due to us. We feel that the riches of Aceh are going to be diverted to Jakarta.
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NASRUDDIN ABU BAKKAR, ADMINISTRATOR, BANDA ACEH

I feel good. Thousands and thousands of people have come to Banda Aceh for a major demonstration.

We are campaigning on the deal about Aceh’s government. Peace has been good but we need more. We feel there are many problems with the deal, many crucial points relating to how government works, relating to authority.

We need to be clear about where the real authority with Aceh lies. The government kept all the authority. Indonesia, Jakarta is the master.

We need change so the balance of authority is given to Aceh.
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