INSIDE a two-storey house in Alby, in the southern part of Stockholm, Sweden, three leaders of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) watch a television broadcast attentively. The faces of Prime Minister Malik Mahmud, Foreign Minister Zaini Abdullah, and Spokesman Baktiar Abdullah, repeatedly appear in the news bulletin on TV. Since political relations between Indonesia and Sweden took a downturn, they have been taking care of journalists.

Hasan Tiro