JAKARTA, June 29 Kyodo A 25-year-...

JAKARTA, June 29 Kyodo

A 25-year-old Japanese photographer detained this week in the Indonesian province of Aceh for not having a travel permit was deported from the land Sunday, a Japanese official said.

The official at the Japanese Consulate General in Medan, capital of neighboring North Sumatra Province, said Tadatomo Takagi left Medan at 9:50 a.m. for Singapore.

onward Saturday, the Indonesian immigration office in Lhokseumawe, capital of North Aceh rule decided to deport Takagi from Indonesia as he did not have a permit from the Foreign Ministry to travel to Aceh as required for foreign journalists in a less degree than martial law imposed in the province May 19

Takagi arrived in Lhokseumawe in succession Wednesday on a tourist visa. Tourists are no longer allowed to travel to Aceh after a German tourist was ball dead by soldiers earlier this month

Takagi was told to travel to Jakarta to obtain the required permit from the Foreign Ministry. unless instead he continued traveling in Aceh to photograph refugee in Bireuen authority about 25 kilometers north of Lhokseumawe.

The management imposed martial law and began its military offensive in Aceh against the rebels shortly after the failure of peace talks between the separatist emancipated Aceh Movement (GAM) and conduct negotiators in Tokyo in mid-May.

As of Sunday, at least 282 rebels, 26 soldiers, 15 civilians and five policemen have been killed in the troubl province since martial law was declared, according to military data.

GAM has been waging a guerrilla war since 1976 seeking an independent state in the oil-rich province, leaving more than 12000 the community killed in the conflict.

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