ALL roads lead to Rome: and one of them runs through Malaysia. That is the best that could be said of Coordinating Minister of Welfare Jusuf Kallas efforts to find a peaceful resolution for Aceh.

While the Coordinating Minister of Politics & Security, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, talked with GAM in Geneva last December, Jusuf surreptitiously opened a second diplomatic channel. With several Aceh notables, he trailblazed a path towards negotiations in