QANUN BILL
The Fate of the Overseer
Deliberations on the Qanun bill for establishing a Wali Nanggroe leadership figure hit a dead end. Former members of GAM are asking that the wali be more than just symbolic.
October 14, 2008
AFTER having flown a long distance to Stockholm at the end of August, 20 or so members of the Aceh Regional House of Representatives returned home empty-handed. The mission of the Special Committee on the Qanun Bill for the Wali Nanggroe to meet with Hasan Tiro, leader of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), in the Swedish capital, had failed.
The group was only able to meet with Husaini Hasan, a GAM figure from the 1976 group. This was the case, as th
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