WITHOUT the participation of GAM, who will be victorious in Acehs regional heads elections next Monday? Most likely, the United Development Party (PPP), which ranked first in the list of electoral contestants in the 1999 General Elections and second in 2004.

The PPP will reap the biggest benefit because GAM has not picked any single candidate. Humam Hamid and Hasbi Abdullah, who are supported by the PPP, which carries the picture of the Kaaba shr