IV 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 327
Calling on the Government of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement to 
immediately declare a ceasefire and halt hostilities in the Indonesian 
province of Aceh, end all human rights violations, and return to negotia-
tions with significant Acehnese civil society and international involvement, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 18, 2003
Mr. CROWLEY (for himself, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. EVANS, and Mr. 
ENGLISH) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on International Relations 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Calling on the Government of Indonesia and the Free Aceh 
Movement to immediately declare a ceasefire and halt 
hostilities in the Indonesian province of Aceh, end all 
human rights violations, and return to negotiations with 
significant Acehnese civil society and international in-
volvement, and for other purposes.
Whereas the Government of Indonesia declared martial law in 
the province of Aceh on May 19, 2003, following the 
breakdown of the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement be-
tween the Government of Indonesia and the Free Aceh 
Movement (GAM);
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Whereas the United States strongly supported the Cessation 
of Hostilities Agreement, which manifested dramatic re-
ductions in human rights abuses and provided a prom-
ising framework for peaceful resolution of the conflict; 
Whereas the Government of Indonesia’s military campaign 
has displaced thousands of Acehnese civilians and exten-
sive violations of human rights have been reported, in-
cluding extra-judicial killing, torture, rape, sexual assault, 
arbitrary detention, forced displacement, and destruction 
of property; 
Whereas the Indonesian Government, armed forces, and po-
lice have cracked down on domestic human rights and 
humanitarian nongovernmental organizations and agen-
cies through extra-judicial killing, disappearance, physical 
intimidation, detention, and destruction of property in 
Aceh and elsewhere; 
Whereas lawyers of Acehnese detainees have reportedly been 
threatened and in some cases assaulted, and many of the 
human rights and political activists detained have been 
denied legal representation; 
Whereas those responsible for approving, planning, and car-
rying out the extrajudicial execution of Acehnese human 
rights lawyer Jafar Siddiq Hamzah—a United States 
permanent resident who testified before Congress, advo-
cated human rights and a peaceful political solution for 
Aceh, and was later abducted, tortured, and murdered 
upon his return for a visit to Indonesia—have not been 
prosecuted and brought to justice; 
Whereas the armed forces and police of Indonesia have yet 
to publicly release any surveillance files they may have 
maintained on Jafar Siddiq Hamzah, or materials they
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may have pertaining to his abduction, torture, and execu-
tion; 
Whereas Muhamad Nazar, one of Aceh’s most prominent ci-
vilian leaders, was sentenced to five years in prison in an 
apparent revival of Suharto-era legislation for ‘‘sowing 
hatred and hostility’’ against the Indonesian Government 
for peaceful political activities; 
Whereas the Indonesian Government has severely restricted 
access to Aceh by international humanitarian and human 
rights agencies and nongovernmental organizations, effec-
tively precluding their operation in Aceh; 
Whereas the Indonesian Government has curtailed the free 
flow of information on conditions in Aceh by severely lim-
iting access by international and domestic journalists and 
intimidating local journalists, including the reported mur-
ders of several local journalists; 
Whereas the Free Aceh Movement has been accused of seri-
ous violations, including the burning of schools, extortion, 
and taxation of many Acehnese residents; 
Whereas President Bush and senior United States Govern-
ment officials have stated that the conflict in Aceh is not 
amenable to a military solution, and leading religious fig-
ures, civil society leaders and politicians in Indonesia 
have called for a ceasefire in Aceh; 
Whereas the Indonesian Government and the armed forces of 
Indonesia are likely to prolong the duration of martial 
law in Aceh, from the initial six months to the completion 
of nationwide elections in mid-2004; 
Whereas the Government of Indonesia has publicly pressured 
the Government of Malaysia to forcibly return Acehnese 
seeking refuge in Malaysia;
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Whereas the Government of Malaysia, in contradiction to 
international refugee law and United Nations High Com-
missioner for Refugees (UNHCR) guidelines on deten-
tion, has forcibly returned Acehnese asylum seekers to 
Indonesia where they are at risk of serious human rights 
violations and has further detained several hundred asy-
lum seekers with the indication that they too will be forc-
ibly returned, although some of them have been issued 
protection documentation by the UNHCR or have indi-
cated a desire to seek protection from the UNHCR; and 
Whereas a previous decade-long (1989–1998) military cam-
paign in Aceh led to the death of more than 10,000 civil-
ians and broad human rights abuses, while failing to re-
solve the conflict in Aceh: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That—
(1) Congress—
(A) condemns past and ongoing violations 
of human rights by all sides in the Indonesian 
province of Aceh; 
(B) calls on the Government and armed 
forces of Indonesia to allow immediate, free, 
and unhindered access to Aceh by international 
humanitarian and human rights organizations 
and by international and domestic journalists; 
(C) calls on the Government and armed 
forces of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Move-
ment (GAM) to immediately declare a ceasefire
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lum seekers by the UNHCR, and release asy-
lum seekers thus far detained; and 
(2) it is the sense of Congress that the Presi-
dent and Secretary of State should—
(A) expeditiously increase efforts, in con-
junction with the Government of Japan, the 
European Union, the World Bank and the 
International Monetary Fund (IMF), and oth-
ers instrumental in securing the December 
2002 ceasefire, to press both sides to the con-
flict to suspend hostilities and return to nego-
tiations; 
(B) increase pressure on the Government, 
armed forces, and police of Indonesia, and the 
Free Aceh Movement, to cease all human rights 
violations; 
(C) press the Government of Indonesia to 
prosecute and bring to justice those responsible 
for approving, planning, and carrying out the 
extrajudicial execution of Acehnese human 
rights lawyer and United States permanent 
resident Jafar Siddiq Hamzah; 
(D) press the armed forces and police of 
Indonesia to publicly release all surveillance 
files they may have maintained on Jafar Siddiq
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Hamzah, and all materials they may have per-
taining to his abduction, torture, and execution; 
(E) urge the Indonesian Government, 
armed forces, and police to end repression and 
intimidation of nongovernmental organizations 
and to allow immediate, free, and unhindered 
access to Aceh by international humanitarian 
and human rights organizations and inde-
pendent monitors; 
(F) press the Government of Malaysia to 
release Acehnese asylum seekers in detention, 
allow them full access to representatives of the 
United Nations High Commissioner for Refu-
gees (UNHCR) to apply for asylum should they 
wish to do so, immediately refrain from forcibly 
returning Acehnese seeking asylum in Malaysia, 
and cooperate fully with the UNHCR; 
(G) increase efforts to assist in the reha-
bilitation and economic development of Aceh; 
(H) raise and protest human rights viola-
tions committed in Aceh at all appropriate 
international fora and actively support involve-
ment of the United Nations High Commissioner 
for Human Rights, through the dispensation of
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special rapporteurs, to investigate human rights 
violations in Aceh; 
(I) press the Government of Indonesia, 
working through the Indonesian National Com-
mission 
on 
Human 
Rights 
(‘‘KOMNAS 
HAM’’), to identify those individuals within the 
Indonesian armed forces, police, and others who 
should be prosecuted for human rights crimes 
committed in the military campaign in Aceh 
and ensure that trials are conducted which 
meet international standards of justice; 
(J) review its bilateral relationship and 
military assistance to Indonesia in light of seri-
ous human rights violations committed by the 
Indonesian armed forces and police in Aceh; 
and 
(K) urge the Indonesian Government and 
armed forces to refrain from using United 
States-supplied weaponry in Aceh.
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