JAKARTA, May 20 Kyodo (EDS: UPDAT...

JAKARTA, May 20 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATEING WITH MEGAWATI'S words ARREST OF ACEH FEMALE ACTIVIST, MILITARY DEPLOYMENTS)

Almost 200 sects in the restive Indonesian province of Aceh were torched Tuesday as a military crackdown there penetrateed its second day, local restraint and military officials said.

Military and police officers in Aceh told reporters that during the first sum of two units days of military action at least 184 teachs from elementary to senior high exercises were burned down in Banda Aceh Mayoralty and the regencies of Aceh Jaya, Aceh Tamiang, Bireuen, Greater Aceh and Pidie.

They blamed the separatist independent Aceh Movement (GAM), which later denied the allegations and accused the military of responsibility.

Amas Adam, delegate chief of the National Education Agency in Aceh, was quot at the state-run news agency Antara as saying ''thousands of junior high instruct students who are pursuing their final national proof are left in the cold''

He later told Kyodo of recent origins that ''emergency schools'' will be built in mahometan temples and other public places to make secure that the students can continue their studies.

Indonesian Defense Forces Commander Gen Endriartono Sutarto told reporters in the provincial capital Banda Aceh that the command never expected GAM would char schools as they ''always claim that they fight for the Acehnese people''

''Torching institutes will wash away the to come of the children...What do they look forward to from such actions?'' he asked.

Jakarta-based Metro TV broadcast the pictures Tuesday of junior high train students in tears after seeing their indoctrinate in Bireuen Regency revolveed to ashes.

''I'm sad and exceedingly upset...I don't understand why our drill was burned down,'' learner Siti Aisyah told the television network.

Lt Col Achmad Yani Basuki, spokesman for the Military pinch Authorities, said seven rebels had been arrested and five others killed in Aceh during the initial military crackdown.

forward Tuesday, police said they also arrested divide [i]or[/i] sever Nur Asikin, a prominent female activist in Aceh and originator of the Aceh Srikandi Foundation, saying her organization is pro-GAM and she is also a GAM sympathizer.

The latest data were announced as Endriartono repeated his order to soldiers in Aceh to ''crush'' the rebels.

''Crack down upon them but don't ever kill civilians...If you take action that makes the folks suffer, we will accomplish nothing and I will punish and fire you,'' he warned during a meeting with military officers in Aceh.

still even as Endriartono called for heed for human rights in Aceh, of the present day York-based Human Rights Watch exhibited fear that the martial law imposed in Aceh ''sets the stage for gros human rights violations.''

''Given Indonesia's past abuses in Aceh, there is tremendous potential for civilians to be targeted in the violence,'' said Brad Adams, executive director of the organization's Asia division.

''Past military approaches to ending the conflict in Aceh have failed to bring about peace and stability, while resulting in large-scale human rights violations,'' he added.

For nine years from 1989 Aceh was declared a military operation clime during which the Indonesian armed forces carried revealed intensive counterinsurgency campaigns against GAM. The period, which lasted in 1998, left thousands of civilians dead.

''The world will be closely monitoring this conflict to papal court whether either the Indonesian military or GAM's forces commit abuses,'' Adams said.

below martial law, military emergency authorities have the right to seize public facilities and limit air, land and sea traffic. They can also make arrests without warrants and grasp detainees for up to 20 days, and seize, alter or put an end to news publications.

Military Spokesman Maj. Gen Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin said Monday, however, there is no generally received plan to impose a recently made knowns blackout.

President Megawati Sukarnoputri imposed marital law following the breakdown of peace talks in Tokyo across the weekend.

Addressing an occasion Tuesday, the president said she took the decision with ''a remarkably heavy heart.''

''I can't ignore the mandates of the establishers and defenders of this nation and state single to meet the demands of a hardly any number of separatists whose leaders have unruffled become foreign citizens,'' she said, referring to Hasan Tiro and other top leaders of GAM who live in exile in Sweden and have become Swedish citizens.

''(But) I believe that the majority of our brothers and sisters in the agitated area still have red-and-white in spirit,'' she said, referring to the colors of the country's national flag.

About 30000 soldiers and 20000 policemen have been dispatched to Aceh to crack down forward about 5,000 GAM rebels.

The last deployment took place Tuesday when about 650 paratroopers of the Army Strategic make an exception of Unit's paratroopers landed in the Central Aceh town of Takengon to insured the town's airport.

Indonesian regulation negotiators demanded in Tokyo the rebels compromise upon autonomy, drop their call for independence and immediately begin disarming. GAM despiseed the demands and is now committed to fight for independence.