Acheh-Sumatra National Liberation Front http://unpo.org/downloads/1112.pdf Human Rights Council Forum on Minority Issues: "Preventing and addressing violence and atrocity crimes targeted against minorities” Seventh Session 25–26 November 2014, Room XX, Palais des Nations,Geneva, Switzerland By: Mr. Yusuf Daud Item 6: Avoiding renewed violence — building the peace and managing diversity Thank you Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, Acheh-Sumatra National Liberation Front or ASNLF fully supports the draft recommendations document, particularly articles 69, 78 and 80 concerning this item. The ASNLF would like to draw your attention to the situations facing ethnic minorities in Indonesia. As an archipelago, Indonesia consists of hundreds of ethnic and linguistic minorities, with different histories, backgrounds, cultures etc. And It is well known that minorities in Indonesia, especially in some hotspot areas such as Acheh in Sumatra, West Papua and South Moluccas are often collectively subjected to violence, as a result of their distinct identities. Branded as separatists, they face serious state-sponsored human rights violations, including arbitrary arrests, disappearances, and extra-judicial killings, whenever they engage in political activities to express their opinions and assert their minority rights. Mr Chairman, In this opportunity, we would like to focus on the post conflict situations of Acheh. Following a sporadic thirty-year armed-conflict between the Free Acheh Movement and Indonesia, a ceasefire agreement called Memorandum of Understanding or MoU was reached in 2005 in Helsinki, Finland. One of the many provisions stipulated in the agreement is the establishment of the Human Rights Court (HRC). This rights body should have been set up at the latest one year after the Law on Governing Acheh (LoGA) have become effective.