JAKARTA, May 23 Kyodo Indonesian ...

JAKARTA, May 23 Kyodo

Indonesian military officers may take through the whole extent of some civilian local commands in the restive province of Aceh as local officials fearing attacks from the separatist unrestrained Aceh Movement (GAM) have not shown up for work, a military spokesman said Friday.

Lt Col Firdaus Komarno, spokesman of Aceh's Iskandar Muda Military Regional Command, told reporters military officers may replace 50 heads of districts in Aceh and a decision will be taken immediately.

There are generally 210 heads of districts spread throughout 10 regencies and four mayoralties in the northernmost province.

''Moreover, military officers will work right along with 20 other heads of districts in carrying gone out their duties,'' Komarno said.

sway activities in some areas in Aceh have been paralyzed since the command launched a military offensive against GAM that continued for a fifth day Friday.

According to Komarno, as of Friday, control troops killed 58 rebels, arrested 23 others and confiscated weapons and ammunition.

The Indonesian sway however, also lost two soldiers and a policeman, while 18 soldiers were injured in action, said the spokesman.

Komarno also acts as spokesman of the Aceh Military strait Authorities set up in subordination to the martial law imposed by dint of President Megawati Sukarnoputri since Monday.

''Five civilians were also killed (in the clashes between sway troops and rebels), one injured and another the same arrested,'' Komarno said, without explaining the reason behind the arrest of the civilian.

However, GAM spokesman Sofyan Dawood said Jakarta soldiers killed 53 civilians and injured 121 others. Twenty-seven civilians also went missing during clashes with the management troops, Dawood said.

He also claimed that GAM had killed 43 Indonesian soldiers.

In a further evolution Komarno said 23,000 civilians have fl their familys and are mostly concentrated in the regencies of West Aceh and North Aceh.

As of Friday, 328 trains 26 houses, eight vehicles and a military office were also torched, the spokesman said, blaming the arson attacks forward GAM. GAM, however, said the Indonesian military was behind the action.

The UN humanitarian and cultural agencies onward Thursday appealed to the management and the rebels to foster educational facilities from destruction.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the UN Children's stock (UNICEF) and the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ''urg all parties to make sure that educational facilities remain baldrics of peace, and are not targeted, damaged or destroyed''

According to UNICEF, more than 60000 close examiners in Aceh have already been affected according to the fighting, saying it will dispatch 300 urgency school kits along with 50 educate tents to Aceh for internally displaced children, as well as communities where drills have been destroyed.

Martial law in Aceh was imposed following the breakdown of peace talks in Tokyo through the weekend after GAM slighted the demands of restraint negotiators to compromise on autonomy, pendant their call for independence and immediately begin disarming.

forward Dec. 9, Indonesia and GAM signed a Cessation of Hostilities Agreement in Geneva, and the situation in Aceh appeared then to have improved. further after several weeks, the peace proces unraveled across the terms of autonomy and differences through the whole extent of disarmament.

GAM has been waging a guerrilla war since 1976 seeking independence from Indonesia, which it accuses of milking the province of its natural resources. Jakarta has in fresh years implemented special autonomy for the resource-rich province at the northern tip of Sumatra.

Indonesia last imposed martial law in 1999 in East Timor following a U.N.-sanctioned ballot that l to the former Portuguese colony's independence last year.

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