BANDA ACEH: Indonesia wants a lasting truce with separatists in tsunami-ravaged Aceh province, vice-president Yusuf Kalla said yesterday, as both sides expressed willingness for talks to end the 28-year rebellion.
Yusuf, speaking in this regional capital, said Jakarta wanted more than just a ceasefire while a massive international aid effort is under way in a province where more than 110,000 people were killed and 700,000 left homeless.
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