'acehkita' hits newsstands

'acehkita' hits newsstands

A man pores through the new Koran acehkita weekly
newspaper in Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province.

The tabloid hit newsstands on Monday to mark the peace
agreement signed between the government and the separatist Free
Aceh Movement in Helsinki, Finland.

The 24-page tabloid, 5,000 copies of which were printed for
the maiden edition, also carried an Indonesian translation of the
peace deal.

The newspaper, which will appear on a weekly basis before
becoming a daily newspaper, targets medium to lower income people
with a single copy selling for Rp 2,500 (25 US cents).

According to Smita Notosusanto, one of the paper's founders,
the newspaper aims to disseminate information not provided by
other media.

Aceh's only daily, Serambi Indonesia, lost many of its
employees in the tsunami but was back on the streets a week after
the disaster.

The new acehkita newspaper, she added, will work to bring Aceh
back to its historical and cultural roots.

Acehkita publishes a magazine and runs the www.acehkita.com
website, which focus on human rights issues. (JP/Nani Afrida)