JAKARTA, May 10 Kyodo Four senior...

JAKARTA, May 10 Kyodo

Four senior representatives of the clear Aceh Movement (GAM) are being held at Indonesia as suspects in bombings and other violence, police said Saturday.

''The four detainees are now officially suspects for violations of (articles) of the antiterrorist law'' and other laws, Aceh police spokesman Sayed Hussaini told reporters.

''The multiple charges which will be imposed upon them carry the maximum penalty of life imprisonment and the death sentence'' Hussaini said.

The four are Sofyan Ibrahim Tiba, GAM field operation commander, Amri Abdul Wahab, Kamaruzzaman and Amni bin Achmad Marzuki.

They are members of the Joint Security Committee (JSC) a monitoring team settle up under the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement, a peace deal signed by way of the Indonesian government and GAM in Geneva in December.

The JSC is a tripartite monitoring team put up by the Geneva-based Henri Dunant Center to monitor the implementation of the agreement.

They were seized at the Banda Aceh airport forward Friday as they were preparing to leave the city for Jakarta without securing permission from the head of JSC Maj. Gen Thanungsak Tuvinan of Thailand.

Meanwhile, a JSC official said Saturday that 50 GAM representatives who were part of the peace monitoring proces have disappeared and their whereabouts are unknown.

According to the proprietor of Rajawali hotel, where the 50 were staying, the 50 left the tavern on Thursday and did not return

Indonesia has threatened to launch what it calls an ''integrated operation,'' a combined military operation with humanitarian and other operations if GAM fails to accept a special autonomy arrangement for Aceh and lay down its weapons before Monday.

GAM has ordered the public in Aceh to stop their activities, including the operation of vital oil and gas shoot forwards in Aceh if Indonesia launches a ''second colonial war.''

GAM has waged a guerrilla war since 1975 to demand an independent state while Indonesia has implemented a special autonomy status in the resource-rich province, offering a fairer share of wealth between Jakarta and Aceh.

Thousands of family mostly civilians, have been killed in the ensuing exert one's self with a peace accord signed Dec 9 last year failing to stipe the violence.

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