Aceh,officially the Province of Aceh,is the westernmost province of Indonesia. It is located on the northern end of Sumatra island,with Banda Aceh being its capital and largest city. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west,Strait of Malacca to the northeast,as well bordering the province of North Sumatra to the east,and shares maritime borders with Malaysia and Thailand to the east,and Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India to the north. Granted a special autonomous status,Aceh is a religiously conservative territory and the only Indonesian province practicing Sharia law officially. There are ten indigenous ethnic groups in this region,the largest being the Acehnese people,accounting for approximately 70% of the region's population of about 5.5 million people in mid-2023. Its area is comparable to Croatia or Togo.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,commonly referred to as SBY,is an Indonesian politician and retired army general who served as the sixth president of Indonesia from 2004 to 2014 and the second Indonesian President from the military after Suharto. He founded the Democratic Party of Indonesia,he served as the 4th leader of the Democratic Party from 2014 until 2020,8th and 10th Coordinating Minister of Politics and Security Affairs of Indonesia from 2000 until 2001,and again from 2001 until 2004. He also served as the president of the Assembly and chair of the Council of the Global Green Growth Institute. He was also the former chairman of ASEAN due to Indonesia's hosting of the 18th and 19th ASEAN Summits.
Banda Aceh is the capital and largest city in the province of Aceh,Indonesia. It is located on the island of Sumatra and has an elevation of 35 meters. The city covers an area of 61.36 square kilometers (23.69 sq mi) and had a population of 223,446 people at the 2010 Census,rising to 252,899 at the 2020 Census. The official estimate as at mid 2023 was 261,969.
The Post-Suharto era is the contemporary history in Indonesia,which began with the resignation of authoritarian president Suharto on 21 May 1998. Since his resignation,the country has been in a period of transition known as the Reform era. This period has been characterised by a more open political-social environment and grassroots economic improvement.
The Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM) was deployed by the European Union after the "Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the Republic of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement" had been signed on 15 August 2005 in Helsinki,Finland. The AMM is one of many missions under the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy.
Regional elections were held in Aceh on 11 December 2006 after a peace agreement had been signed between the government of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement on 15 August 2005,ending the Insurgency in Aceh.
Irwandi Yusuf is an Indonesian politician who was the governor of Aceh. He was re-elected Governor in early 2017 after serving an earlier term between 2006 and 2012.
Central Aceh Regency is a regency in Aceh Special Region of Indonesia. It is located on Sumatra island. Formerly this regency covered a much larger area;on 4 June 1974,the Southeast Aceh Regency was separated from the Central Aceh Regency,and on 18 December 2003 the Bener Meriah Regency was separated from the remaining Central Aceh Regency.
The insurgency in Aceh,officially designated the Rebellion in Aceh by the Indonesian government,was a conflict fought by the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) between 1976 and 2005,with the goal of making the province of Aceh independent from Indonesia. The aftermath of a strong military offensive in 2003 and the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami brought a peace agreement and an end to the insurgency.
Mustafa Abubakar is an Indonesian politician and formerly governor of the province of Aceh. Mustafa was appointed as the State Minister for State Enterprises in the Second United Indonesia Cabinet,which was announced on 21 October 2009 following the re-election of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Mustafa was brought into the cabinet after reforming the Indonesian Bureau of Logistics (Bulog),whose previous Chairman,Widjanarko Puspoyo,had been involved in a corruption scandal.
Lieutenant General (Ret) Marciano Norman is the former Director the Indonesian State Intelligence Agency.
Teuku Mohammad Hasan was an Indonesian politician and national hero from Aceh,who served as the first and only governor of Sumatra from 1945 until 1948. He also served as a cabinet minister in Sjafruddin Prawiranegara's emergency cabinet and was a member of both the Senate of the United States of Indonesia (USI) and the Provisional People's Representative Council (DPRS) of the Republic of Indonesia.
Teungku Nyak Arif was an Acehnese nationalist and National Hero of Indonesia. He has been given the nickname Rencong of Aceh,after the traditional Acehnese weapon,for his bravery.
An election was held on 9 April 2012 for the governorship and deputy-governorship of Aceh. Incumbent governor Irwandi Yusuf ran as an independent,while former exile and Free Aceh Movement (GAM) activist Zaini Abdullah competed for the governorship on behalf of the Aceh Party with Muzakir Manaf as running mate. The election was the second to take place in the devolved Aceh region since the post-earthquake/tsunami Helsinki agreement between the Indonesian government and the GAM. The previous gubernatorial election in Aceh had been held in December 2006.
Zaini Abdullah is an Indonesian politician and former separatist activist of the Free Aceh Movement in Indonesia who was elected as the governor of the province of Aceh in the 2012 election for a five-year period from 2012 to 2017. Elected with 56% of the vote,Zaini Abdullah is the second governor directly chosen by the electors of Aceh since the granting of restricted autonomy to the area by the Indonesian government in 2005. His predecessor Irwandi Yusuf,who was elected in 2006 for the period from 2007 to 2012,was the first governor chosen in the province by direct elections.
Denny Januar Ali,known as Denny JA is an Indonesian writer,political consultant,intellectual,litterateur,entrepreneur,and researcher. In 2021,the Essay Poetry Community nominated him as a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In Indonesia,Denny JA is listed as the second person ever to be nominated as a Nobel Literature nominee after Pramoedya Ananta Toer. He holds records in the academic,political,social media,literature and cultural worlds in Indonesia.
Mr. Sutan Mohammad Amin Nasution,also known by his birth name Krueng Raba Nasution,was an Indonesian lawyer and politician with an Acehnese–Mandailing background.
Achmad Tanribali Salim Lamo is an Indonesian military officer and bureaucrat who became the Director General of National Unity and Politics in the Ministry of Home Affairs. Tanribali also held several acting governorships during his tenure in the ministry.
Burhanuddin Mohammad Diah,born only as Burhanuddin,was an Indonesian journalist,diplomat,and businessman,who served as the 18th Indonesian Minister of Information from 1966 until 1968,under the presidencies of Sukarno and Suharto,during the transition to the New Order. He was present at the time of the Proclamation of Independence was being formulated,and was a figure who played an important role in saving the original text of the Proclamation.
