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The Jakarta Post
Nov. 16, 2002

Henry Dunant Centre team begins Aceh orientation tour

SIGLI, Aceh (JP): A five-member team from the Henry Dunant Centre (HDC)
began an orientation tour of Aceh on Saturday with a visit to Pidie
district, some 112 kilometers east of the Aceh capital of Banda Aceh, Antara
news agency reported.

The team, comprising Perce Gorman, Roger Fanister, Ian Oliver, Owen Dobtone
and Jame Hardie, met for one hour with Pidie district head Abdullah Yahya,
district military chief Lt. Col. Supartodi, district police chief Adjutant
Chief Commissioner Mardiyanto and district legislative assembly vice
chairman Yusuf Ishak.

The Pidie district head welcomed and fully supported the presence of the
orientation team, expressing hope that the HDC could help resolve the
decades-long Aceh conflict.

The visit comes after more than 1,000 Indonesian troops tightened their
siege of a Free Aceh Movement (GAM) base southwest of Lhokseumawe city,
following GAM's refusal to sign a "cessation of hostilities" agreement.

The government hopes to sign the agreement on Nov. 23. GAM has said it wants
to wait until after the fasting month of Ramadhan ends on Dec. 6 to sign.


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