In the wake of the December 9 Geneva peace pact, the Indonesian Military and GAM rebels have backed off from their confrontation. Can the settlement last?

As Marine Corps tanks rumbled away from the village, sending up dust in their wake, the 1,400-man military and police personnel started their pullback from the marshlands where members of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) have reportedly been hiding.

They left behind on the edges of the swamps the