Understanding the History of the Aceh Conflict by SM Amin

Author:SM Amin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811508677
Publisher: Springer Singapore

2.The general public’s wishes to establish a system of government based on Law No. 22/1948.

It was highly unfortunate that the above reason (1) was a reason that was “meaningless” or “vague”, hence it was impossible to have an exchange of ideas on the matter.

As for reason (2) it could be said that indeed not only a few people shared the opinion that an implementation of a system of government as defined by Law No. 22/1948 needed to be implemented as soon as possible, however, the cause-effect relationship between the desire to have a democratic government and the need to divide the province of North Sumatra into two provinces was incomprehensible. The province of North Sumatra was a region established based on democracy, hence the regulations were democratic by nature, and made by the government commissioner of Sumatra and the President of the State of the Republic of Indonesia. Additionally, every matter concerning the administration of the province, based on the decision made during the plenary assembly of the North Sumatra representative council in Tapak Tuan in December 1948, should be conducted based on the guideline of the aforesaid Law.

It was not wrong, then, to say that actually what the public desired was to have a more democratic system of government. The Law was the applicable law for the province of North Sumatra. What was the need for dividing the province into two provinces of Aceh and Tapanuli East Sumatra? Was the intention of the law to express the public’s desire for “an immediate establishment of the two provinces”?

A thorough and objective exploration, not one that was based simply on “data” provided by a certain party, based on report from a party that had long desired for an Aceh unity, regardless of any relation with or influence from outside and that indeed during the establishment of the province of North Sumatra less than a year prior, had organized an opposition, came to a conclusion that there was no base whatsoever to the statement stated in consideration c), that there was a “public desire to divide the province of North Sumatra into two provinces”. The public in regard to this issue was divided into three groups.1.Most of them were not interested in the issue of one or two provinces, did not know about or did not have any understanding on the matter.

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