85 more Aceh women get counseling

85 more Aceh women get counseling

BANDA ACEH, Aceh: The Aceh Women's Empowerment Bureau provided
psychological counseling to 85 women on Friday, bringing the
number of women who have received such counseling to 720.

The women are receiving counseling for the trauma they have
suffered during the war between the Indonesian Military and the
separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM).

Lailisma Sofiati, the chairwoman of the non-governmental
organization, said an untold number of women in the province had
been traumatized by the violence of the war.

She said that after receiving five days of counseling, the 85
women would be given Rp 600,000 (US$63) either to start their own
home business or to purchase kitchen equipment. -- JP