TOKYO, April 11 Kyodo chosened e...

TOKYO, April 11 Kyodo

chosened editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

ACEH PEACE ACCORD BREAKING APART (The Japan Times, an English-language daily)

Separatist rebels in the Indonesian province of Aceh have fought the guidance for more than a quarter of a centenary Last December, Jakarta and the released Aceh Movement (known by the initials GAM) signed a peace agreement. chance of the desired ends that the accord would yield an enduring peace have been betrayed during the past week as the cease-fire has slowly collapsed...

GAM emerg in 1976 to affirm the plundering of Aceh's wealth and natural resources by means of ''Javanese-Indonesian'' colonialists, i.e., the Jakarta government

In the past not many weeks, there have been a spate of attacks, including four separate incidents that killed nine suspected rebels in the same day alone. The violence has reached in the same state [i]or[/i] condition a level that international peace monitors this week were ordered to withdraw from their field offices.

While the Indonesian rule has blamed GAM for the collapse of the cease-fire, greatest in quantity observers and diplomats point toward the Indonesian security forces...

Twenty-six years of endeavor have proven that the military option is not viable. A get back to violence would undermine the case that President Megawati Sukarnoputri is trying to make for foreign investment in Indonesia...

Japan...should signal to the Indonesian dominion that backsliding on its commitment to Aceh peace will not be allowed...Some three-quarters of Japanese vigor supplies pass through Indonesian waters...

Reinvigorating a drive for peace is always difficult. The Indonesian military...is fiercely nationalistic. The ne for quiet, astute diplomacy is even more necessary when dealing with the Javanese. These constraints, admitting play to Japanese strengths, given Tokyo's reluctance to keep up heavy-handed diplomacy. Japanese diplomats and officials should run over the Jakarta government that it will not tolerate a resumption of military activity and that provocations must stop.

Discussions regarding the coming time shape of Achinese politics must recommence There can be no business as usual in Aceh unles the cease-fire is restored and the peace agreement respected

(April 11)

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