The Human CostArson and Refugees

May 27, 2003

BEFORE the military emergency in Aceh was even a week old, no fewer than 328 schools had been burnt to the ground. The total damage is estimated to be around Rp50 billion. Who could have been the perpetrators? The Indonesian Military (TNI) pointed an accusing finger at the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), but the latter denied it. Whoever the culprits were, they have darkened the futures of some 100,000 school children. Education in Aceh is now in t

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