From rebels to rulers and legislators : the political transformation of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in Indonesia

  • On 15 August 2005, when the Republic of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, GAM) signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Helsinki, Finland, it was considered yet another uncertain attempt at putting an end to Indonesia's thirty years of conflict in its westernmost province, Aceh. After a historically unprecedented reconstruction process that followed the tsunami of December 2004 and two orderly elections in 2006/2007 and 2009, Aceh’s peace process is not only still on track, but widely considered a role model for ending protracted civil wars by means of political participation and autonomy regulations. This article reviews past developments that have led to the reconfiguration of Aceh's political landscape and seeks to illustrate the most recent developments in GAM's transformation from an independence movement to an Indonesian local political party.

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Author:Gunnar Stange, Roman Patock
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-366350
URL:http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jsaa/article/viewFile/211/211
ISSN:1868-4882
ISSN:1868-1034
Parent Title (English):Journal of current Southeast Asian affairs
Publisher:Inst. of Asian Studies
Place of publication:Hamburg
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2015/02/13
Year of first Publication:2010
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2015/02/13
Tag:Aceh; DDR; Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM); Indonesia; Partai Aceh; post-conflict; tsunami
Volume:29
Issue:1
Page Number:27
First Page:95
Last Page:120
Note:
The Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs is an Open Access publication. It may be read, copied and distributed free of charge according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
HeBIS-PPN:368207358
Institutes:Philosophie und Geschichtswissenschaften / Geschichtswissenschaften
Exzellenzcluster / Exzellenzcluster Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Keine Bearbeitung