In the wake of recent demonstrations by Himpunan Mahasiswa Jawa against a campaign of Acehnesasi of their activist cadre, an expatriate aid worker tells of his own struggle.

It was six months after moving to Aceh from his native Australia that Taufiq (not his real name) started to realize that something was not right. At first I couldnt put my finger on it, he says, but something had changed. Come Saturday night after a hard week on the reconstru