Indonesia has failed to uphold its 2005 peace agreement commitments with Aceh province, a new report says.
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Five months ago, many found it hard to imagine the village of Peuken Bada, in Aceh Province, recovering.
In Jakarta, Mr Surayud said the peace process under way in Indonesia's breakaway Aceh province would serve as a model.
The earthquake measured 8.6 on the Richter scale, occurred 434km south-west of Banda Aceh Province in Sumatra at 08.38 UTC.
The largest, Indonesia, is forecast to grow 5% by next year, with a new government in Jakarta holding some liberal promise even as more struggles beset the nation's Aceh province.
In 2003, then Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnoputri agreed that as part of a ceasefire agreement, the separatist Aceh province was allowed to institute Shariah law as the law of the province.
In Aceh province, where a peace deal with separatists authorized the introduction of Shariah, or Islamic law, "morality patrols" with the help of local police routinely arrest unmarried couples found alone together.
Eleven conventional banks with operations in Aceh province are studying the conversion of their branches in the northern Sumatra territory, says Mulya Siregar, a senior analyst at the central bank's newly established Sharia division.
The director of the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Stein Toennesson, said he was happy on behalf of Mr Yunus, but argued that it was unfortunate the prize this year had not gone to the people behind the peace deal in Indonesia's Aceh province.
The government has clearly learnt some lessons from the much larger earthquake off the coast of north Sumatra in December 2004, which triggered a huge tsunami and killed more than 150, 000 people in Aceh province and another 60, 000 in a dozen countries around the Indian Ocean.
The epicenter was nearest the Indonesian province of Aceh, where governmental authorities quickly turned on warning sirens.
The province of Aceh, in particular, has a powerful independence movement.
With the exception of the continuing conflict in the province of Aceh, Indonesia is now more internally peaceful than seemed imaginable when she took over.
When Mr Wahid claimed that he had reached a ceasefire agreement with the exiled leader of a separatist group from the province of Aceh, it was discounted even before the rebel leader concerned had denied it.
The most recent to emerge is what happened at Aceh, a devoutly Muslim province at the north-western tip of the archipelago.
Saifuddin Bantasyam, a law lecturer who directs the Care Human-Rights Forum, an Aceh-based group, thinks the province could become a test case of international opinion.
Under Mr Wahid's predecessor, Suharto, Aceh's natural gas was siphoned off and did little to help the province, where people are poorer than on Java.
As in other breakaway areas, many of Aceh's 4m people feel they are not seeing their fair share of the wealth flowing from the province's huge oil and gas fields.
Aceh, the tsunami's epicentre, had huge problems because the destruction was worst there, the province had been riven by rebellion in the 1990s and 180 different NGOs were operating there at one point.
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President Megawati Sukarnoputri has pledged to rebuild the war-torn province and hopes to win over the people by allowing the future provincial government to keep 70% of Aceh's substantial oil and gas revenues.
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