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GAM to Submit Aceh Draft by End of December
Wednesday, 09 November, 2005 | 16:55 WIB

TEMPO Interactive, Banda Aceh:The Free Aceh Movement (GAM) is to hand over the draft of Administration Law in Aceh to the Indonesian government by the end of December as the process of the surrender of the GAM weapons and the withdrawal of TNI troops from Aceh will end then. “We will hand over the draft of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) before December 26, 2005. After that there will be a political process,” said Free Aceh Movement (GAM) spokesman Bakhtiar Abdullah in Banda Aceh on Monday (07/11).

Abdullah said that he has yet to read the details of the draft designed by the team that was established by local government. Abdullah promised to talk with the team involved in formulating the draft .

Therefore, he hoped the draft would be in accordance with and be able to accommodate all interests. “We hope everything will be based on what has been stipulated in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Helsinki, Finland,” Abdullah said after arriving from Sweden a few days before Eid .

Meanwhile, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) House of Representatives (DPR) special committee that formed the Administrative Draft in Aceh said that the draft was finalized.

The chairman of the Special Committee Azhari Basyar said that within a short time, the draft would be discussed with Indonesian Home Affairs Minister M. Ma’ruf before it was submitted to the President and House of Representatives (DPR). ‘We have established consultations with the Acehnese in several places before finalizing the draft,” stated Azhari.

Azhari plans for the draft to be brought to Jakarta in the middle of November. (Yuswardi A Suud-Tempo News Room)