INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY EXPECTED TO CONTINUE SUPPORTING PEACE IN ACEH 

            Banda Aceh - International community should continue supporting peace efforts in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) province toward reintegration process. "Both national and international supports are badly needed for peace process in Aceh," Governor Irwandi Yusuf said in his written address, read out by Aceh provincial administration secretary Husni Bahri TOB at the international seminar in Banda Aceh on Monday (13/08). The international seminar on peace in Aceh was conducted to observe the second anniversary of Helsinki peace agreement signed by the Indonesian Government and Free Aceh Movement (GAM) on August 15, 2005.

            Irwandi Yusuf said in his statement that the emerging peace after the signing of the agreement should continue to be maintained and preserved. Therefore, he noted that both national and international communities, as well as all parties concerned, should have a high commitment to keeping and maintaining the peace process in Aceh.

            Irwandi added that the international community had so far played its role in Aceh's reintegration, rehabilitation, and reconstruction processes after a deadly tsunami devastated the province and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives on December 26, 2004.

            The reintegration process was one of the points of the Helsinki Agreement and was expected to have positive impacts on peace development in the province, he said (Antara, 13/08/07).