Bouquets and Bullets
The government has decided to carry out a `limited' security operation in Aceh. Why return to a hard-line approach when the military operations region era saw so many casualties?
March 27, 2001
Not a day passes in Aceh without the sound of gunfire. Last week, nearly every day saw another casualty. Shots were fired at the helicopter carrying the Minister of Energy & Mineral Resources Purnomo Yusgiantoro on a visit to ExxonMobil last Tuesday. The liquefied natural gas (LNG) refinery stopped operating March 9 for security reasons, at a cost to the nation of Rp1 trillion a month. This is despite the government and the Free Aceh Movemen
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