Last Thursday, Coordinating Minister for Politics & Security, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, waved a letter at reporters at his office at Medan Merdeka Barat in Jakarta. The sender was Martin Griffiths, the head of the Henry Dunant Centre (HDC), the international organization that has acted as mediator in peace negotiations between Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM).

Griffiths had some unpleasant news. An envoy sent to Stockholm, Sweden to m