THURSDAY, March 22, 2007. Dozens of people and a number of organizations in Aceh gathered at the graveyard complex of Iskandar Muda, the Acehnese king of the 16th century. They held an event to welcome the issuance of Government Regulation (PP) No. 20/2007 on Local Political Parties in Aceh.

At that event, these people also declared the establishment of a local political party, the Gabthat (God-Fearing Generation of Aceh) Party. “This is the in