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.
The Free Aceh Movement was a separatist group seeking independence for the Aceh region of Sumatra,Indonesia. GAM fought against Indonesian government forces in the Aceh insurgency from 1976 to 2005,during which over 15,000 lives are believed to have been lost.
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.
Hasan Muhammad di Tiro,was the founder of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM),an organisation which attempted to separate Aceh from Indonesia from the 1970s. It surrendered its separatist goals and agreed to disarm as agreed to in the Helsinki peace deal of 2005. He was the maternal great-grandson of Tengku Cik di Tiro,an Indonesian national hero who was killed fighting the Dutch in 1891. In 2010 he obtained his Indonesian citizenship back shortly before his death.
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.
Muhammad Nazar,S.Ag.,is the former deputy governor of the province of Aceh,Indonesia He held office during 2007-2012 having been elected in the 2006 Acehnese regional elections along with Irwandi Yusuf who was elected governor.
Pidie Regency is a regency of Aceh Special region,in Indonesia. It is located in the north of the island of Sumatra,in Western Indonesia,bordered by the Malacca Strait and Pidie Jaya Regency in the north,Aceh Besar Regency in the west,Bireuen Regency in the northeast,and Aceh Jaya Regency in the south. The regency covers an area of 3,184.46 square kilometres and had a population of 379,108 people at the 2010 Census and 435,275 at the 2020 Census;the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 448,085 - comprising 223,208 males and 224,877 females. Pidie was the largest rice-producing area of Aceh province,producing some 20% of its total output.
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 brought a peace agreement and an end to the insurgency.
The Aceh Party is a regional political party in Indonesia. It contested the 2009 elections in the province of Aceh,and is the largest party in the Aceh provincial legislature.
The Aceh Abode Party,formerly the Aceh Regional Party,Aceh Peace Party,and the Aceh Sovereignty Party is a regional political party in Indonesia originally established to accommodate religious figures not associated with the Free Aceh Movement (GAM). It contested the 2009 elections in the province of Aceh under its original name. Its electoral target was 20% or 3 million votes,but it only won 39,706 votes. Under the current party name,it took part in the 2014 elections,and garnered 72,721 votes,a 3% share of the Aceh vote. This was enough for it to be awarded one seat in the 81-member Aceh People's Representative Council.
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.
Muhammad Saman,better known as Teungku Chik di Tiro,was an Acehnese guerrilla fighter. On 6 November 1973 he was declared a National Hero of Indonesia.
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.
Muzakir Manaf,popularly known as Mualem,is an Indonesian politician and former Free Aceh Movement (GAM) guerilla fighter who served as the vice governor of Aceh between 2012 and 2017. Leading the movement's guerilla wing following the death of his predecessor,he was its leader at the end of the conflict and later founded the Aceh Party,becoming its first and current chairman.
Nurdin bin Ismail Amat,better known as Din Minimi,is a former militant of Free Aceh Movement who led an armed band based in Aceh during the 2010s.
The Governor of North Sumatra is the highest office in the province of North Sumatra. The governor of North Sumatra is an elected official who is responsible for leading the government in North Sumatra,proposing and enacting regional laws,and representing the North Sumatra province inside and outside the court. The governor alongside the deputy governor and 100 members of the Regional People's Representative Council are accountable for the strategic government of the province of North Sumatra.
