Surrender of firearms

Surrender of firearms

From Republika

The memorandum of understanding between the Indonesian
government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) contains three
conditions: The granting of amnesty, withdrawal of Indonesian
Military (TNI) troops and surrender of all weapons by GAM.

The government and the TNI are apparently carrying out the
first two conditions. But the government's goodwill has received
no cooperative response yet from GAM's military wing, which has
thousands of firearms.

By the time GAM surrenders its weapons on Sept. 15, GAM should
be communicating the contents of the MOU to its members and
instructing them to gather all firearms for delivery to the Aceh
Monitoring Mission.

Any attempt to keep the weapons or deliver assembled ones
instead of standard military firearms would be unfair and could
finally disturb the process of achieving peace.

CUT RINI YANTI
Jakarta