Self-Government on the Cards?

GAM has proposed the concept of self-government. Don't they want complete independence for Aceh?

March 1, 2005

THE end of the meeting was described as warm and full of understanding. One day before the end of the talks, the Prime Minister of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) gave a speech. His voice was calm and measured. He spoke on behalf of Teungku Hasan di Tiro, the "honorable head of state," now based in Sweden. "We firmly believe, that with patience and wisdom, we can find a way out," he said on Tuesday of last week in Helsinki, t

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