"BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - Could they talk, the 2,200 Dutch and Indonesian soldiers buried in a well-kept cemetery in Aceh's capital might well speak of the folly of trying to subdue the proud people of this region. As the Indonesian military gears up for the second week of a major offensive against Free Aceh Movement (GAM) rebels, it needs no greater reminder of the battle ahead than this graveyard, where every name has been etched into gray stone at the entrance. Indonesia's devoutly Muslim province of Aceh has long fought outside rule. The Aceh War against Dutch colonialists, who at times employed Indonesian soldiers, was fought sporadically from 1873 until the Japanese invasion of the archipelago in 1942. Indeed, military analysts said after failing for 27 years to beat GAM, Jakarta was not about to eradicate the rebels this time despite launching its biggest offensive ever against them, partly explaining why it was not just looking for battlefield success."
[This must be why they needed to spend multimillions on new Russian equipment. Personally I always tend to read "Jakarta" as meaning "Javanese-dominated military-bourgeois state".]
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