Aceh Jaya Citizen Settlement Witnesses Mute Aceh Conflict

ACEH JAYA - The prolonged conflict that struck Aceh for more than 30 years still leaves its mark. One is in Panggong Village, Krueng Sabee sub-district, Aceh Jaya. where two sub-villages in the local village were vilified to the present day.

Public facilities such as places of worship and a number of houses residents seem abandoned.

One local resident, Amiruddin Y (52) to AJNN tell before the outbreak of the conflict between GAM and TNI in the village Panggong including the area's most densely populated, even the government of Aceh Jaya already planned expansion of new sub-district for rural areas, which is the center of his district in Panggong Village.

The reason, in addition to the densely populated also there are transmigration settlements adjacent to the village.

However, Amiruddin said, when the conflict of people's lives there disturbed, they were forced to flee from the local village.

Panggong village is one of the remote villages in Aceh Jaya, believed the time was used as a hideout of the militants of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), he said.

Meanwhile Nurdin PM Tuha Peut and former chairman Geuchik this Panggong village said the village Panggong distance of 8 kilometers from the center of Krueng Sabee Sub-district was once there were four hamlets, namely Hamlet Happy, Beetle Cot Hamlet, Hamlet and Hamlet Guha Batee Musalla Dragon.

He said, former community of Panggong Village is more than 1,500 people who mostly are farmers and planters.

Nurdin nickname Geuchik Panggong Din revealed that currently there are only two more hamlets that weevil Cot village and hamlet Guha Naga population of approximately 750 people.

Meanwhile, Keuchik Panggong Tgk Yusman encountered AJNN dikediamanya said two villages were already abandoned by its inhabitants, namely Lorong Babah Krueng, Lorong Bateung Keleng and hallway Batee Lee residing in Hamlet Batee Musalla, and hallways Ujong Peudeung and hallways Alue Raya in Hamlet Happy .

Two villages were inhabited more than 700 people and more or less there are about 250 families (KK), he said.