JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia needs to ensure that a hard-won peace in Aceh province becomes permanent, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Monday, ahead of the anniversary of a deal to end three decades of conflict.
The separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian government signed a pact in Helsinki on Aug. 15, 2005, aimed at ending a war in which 15,000 people died and giving Acehnese greater power over their own affairs.
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