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The irony is that sharia was first introduced into Aceh as part of a package of measures that ultimately succeeded in making peace in the long-running guerrilla war between the conservative, independence-minded Acehnese and the Indonesian state.

Militant muslims causing trouble? Who would have guessed? /s

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The former guerrillas accuse the government of bolstering the Islamists and using sharia as a method of weakening their consistent demand for a progressive, democratic Aceh, ruled by its own people. “They are exploiting the religious conviction of many Acehnese to manipulate them,” wrote Aguswandi, a human rights activist, in The Jakarta Post.

Then again, maybe not.