"Save the Aceh forest, because the forest is one of the heirlooms that we will pass on to our children and grandchildren in the future" (Stockholm, Sweden, June 15, 2009)
I write book “The Price of Freedom” is preparation for my death, shaheed a witneas to an idea that had earlier been made aacred by the spilt bloed of my ancestors and recently by the spilt blood of my loyal followers.
“The national liberation of a people is the recovery of the history by destroying the imperialist domination to which they were subjected.” This is an explanation as well as a secret. Only a man of Amilcar Cabral's genius could have said that.
It should have been made clear by now that there is more to it than can be presented here about the struggle of the people of Aceh-Sumatra. This is a historic struggle of the first magnitude, endured by the heroic people after 110 years, that is from 1873 to 1983!
The people of Aceh-Sumatra exists as a people; and all people have the inalienable right to self determination, and to sovereignty. Under International Law, the people of Aceh-Sumatra will not lose their right to independence and sovereignty unless they are exterminated.
To the question: "Who owns Sumatra?" There is only one clear answer, and it is no longer vague, that is, it belongs to us, the Sumatran people, from Aceh to Lampung, from Sabang to Bangka and Belitung!
There is no way to defeat the Achehnese in war! Therefore he proposed to the Dutch government to withdraw the Dutch troops from the Land of Aceh and to resolve the hostilities with the Kingdom of Aceh through diplomacy, through negotiations.
The defeat of the Dutch in Aceh, and the ongoing war with Aceh will undermine Dutch rule in the East.
Indonesia was nothing but a geographic expression until the Dutch found out it more efficient to unite the islands of the Indies under a single administration.
Indonesian Nationalism: A Western invention to subvert Islam and to prevent decolonization of the Dutch East Indies. (London, 31 Juli 1985)
“It was not easy to leave my life in Riverdale New York, USA and choose to live in the dense jungle as a guerrilla leader.”
The transfer of Aceh's sovereignty from the Netherlands to Indonesia in 1949 was illegal. The legal basis it uses is the UN Resolution which obliges colonialist countries to hand over their colonies to the natives. Indonesia, not a native of Aceh.
"L'ile de Sumatra est une des plus considerables de l' Asie. Java, qui est la plus meridionale des iles de la Sunde apartient presque toute aux Hollandois. Batavia est le sejour du Gouverneur General des Indes."
Free Aceh Movement has its own flag and travellers from the province tell of villages where this flag is run up at dusk. (24 June 1977)