Verandah of Violence: The Background to the Aceh Problem offers a guide to the complexities of modern Aceh as it moves toward peace and reconstruction, with a balanced coverage by leading authorities, historians and political scientists as well as journalists, which probes the underlying causes of the conflict that has pitted Aceh against Jakarta. It shows why the Acehnese entered the Indonesian republic in 1945 with an unparalleled determination to resist outside domination, and how these attitudes have shaped Aceh’s relations with the Indonesian state.
In Indonesia’s westernmost province of Aceh, the democratisation process that began in Indonesia in 1998 encouraged the overt expression of regionalist sentiment and resentment of the military. The surprising extent of both made Aceh, home to a long-standing independence movement, the next potential candidate after East Timor to break away from Indonesia, and led to harsh repressive measures by the military. The tsunami of December 2004 brought incalculable destruction and loss to Aceh, which was at the epicentre of the disaster. At the same time, it brought international sympathy and aid on an unprecedented scale, along with new pressures for peace. In August 2005 Indonesia and Aceh signed a peace agreement designed to put an end to the conflict between the two sides.
Maps and Illustrations
In Memoriam
Preface
Acknowledgements
Spelling and Usage
Contributors
Glossary and Abbreviations
Chronology of Events
1. Introduction
– Anthony Reid
2. Indian and Indonesian Elements in Early North Sumatra
– E. Edwards McKinnon
3. Aceh in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: “Serambi Mekkah” and Identity
– Peter G. Riddell
4. The Pre-modern Sultanate’s View of its Place in the World
– Anthony Reid
5. Aceh at the Time of the 1824 Treaty
– Lee Kam Hing
6. Colonial Transformation: A Bitter Legacy
– Anthony Reid
7. Aceh and the Holy War (Prang Sabil)
– Teuku Ibrahim Alfian
8. From Autonomy to Periphery: A Critical Evaluation of the Acehnese Nationalist Movement
– M. Isa Sulaiman
9. Violence and Identity Formation in Aceh under Indonesian Rule
– Edward Aspinall
10. Sentiments Made Visible: The Rise and Reason of Ache’s national Liberation Movement
– William Nessen
11. Military Business in Aceh
– Damien Kingsbury and Lesley McCulloch
12. Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency: Strategy and the Aceh Conflict, October 1976—May 2004
– Kirsten E. Schulze
13. Democratisation, the Indonesian Armed Forces and the Resolving of the Aceh Conflict
– Aleksius Jemadu
14. What’s Special about Special Autonomy in Aceh?
– Michelle Ann Miller
15. Local Leadership and the Aceh Conflict
– Rodd McGibbon
Bibliography
Index
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