BANDA ACEH: Students and other activists who support separatist guerrillas in Aceh province will face subversion charges that can carry the death penalty, police said yesterday.
“We will use the (criminal code) article on subversion, which carries up to the death sentence, against them,” said Sayed Husaini, police spokesman in the province where a major military assault against the rebels is in its third week.
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