Aceh hopes elections bring new lease on life
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MEUNASAH BAK'U, Indonesia  - Teungku Sobirin lost seven children and his home to the tsunami that devastated Indonesia's Aceh province two years ago, but he believes there was a lesson in it for the war-weary province.
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JAKARTA, Indoesia Sept. 19, 2004 - Indonesian voters hungry for change are expected on Monday to do something that was unthinkable during the country&#39;s three decades of authoritarian rule toss out an incumbent
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia will soon set the ball rolling to allow former rebels in Aceh to establish a political party and join the mainstream in the once volatile province, a top peace monitor said on Saturday.
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Indonesia and leaders of Aceh's separatist movement will resume talks next week to discuss limited autonomy for the resource-rich but impoverished province.
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A state of civil emergency in the rebellion-hit Indonesian province of Aceh has been formally extended by six month, as the country's president pledged to end violence there without foreign help.
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Indonesia's largest party is electing its new leader in Bali in what is one of the most critical periods in its history.
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GAMPONG COT, Indonesia  - Acehnese poured into polling stations on Monday to vote in a landmark election in the once-rebellious Indonesian province aimed at bolstering a peace deal between the government and separatists.
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MEUNASAH BAK'U, Indonesia  - Teungku Sobirin lost his seven children and home to the tsunami that devastated Indonesia's Aceh province two years ago, but he believes there was a lesson in it for the war-weary province.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Accusations flying  between the Indonesian military and rebels in tsunami-ravaged  Aceh province clouded prospects for recovery as aid workers on  Saturday began to switch their focus from relief to rebuilding.
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Voters hungry for change are expected today to do what was unthinkable during Indonesia&#39;s three decades of authoritarian rule -- toss
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The man expected to be Aceh's new governor hails the province's first direct vote but says hard work lies ahead.
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LHOONG, Indonesia  - As a rebel fighter, Marjuni Ibrahim hid out in Aceh's jungle. These days he leads "guerrilla tours" taking visitors with a taste for extreme hiking and an interest in Aceh's turbulent past over the same terrain.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia offered talks  with separatist rebels in tsunami-hit Aceh province on  Wednesday, hoping to calm security fears for foreign relief  workers helping the disaster's victims.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Vote counting began on Monday in the once-rebellious Indonesian province of Aceh in a landmark election aimed at bolstering a peace deal between the government and separatists.
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HELSINKI, Sep 20 (IPS) - "Amid all the destruction and loss the mood was  high. People were making bricks, digging  fishponds, building  fishing boats. And people were sitting in coffee shops late into  the night  just as if there had never been any war." This is  how Mahmoud Malik, leader of the rebel  movement of the  Indonesian province Aceh described returning home in April this  year after  more than 30 years' exile.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Dead bodies littered the  streets of Indonesia's Aceh province where it was feared on  Tuesday more than 25,000 people may have been killed from  Sunday's quake and tsunami.
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SINGAPORE For the first time ever, Indonesians have chosen a president through direct elections and given the victor a whopping mandate for change.