The Achehnese belongs to a country named Acheh located on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra, Southeast Asian/Nusantara. Past spellings of its name include Nanggroe Acheh Darussalam, Atjeh and Achin.
It is thought to have been in Acheh where Islam was first established in Southeast Asia/Nusantara. In the early seventeenth century the Sultanate of Acheh was the most wealthy, powerful and cultivated empire in the Melacca Straits region. Acheh has a history of political independence and fierce resistance to control by outsiders, including the former Dutch colonists and the Indonesian government. Aceh has substantial natural resources, including oil a
nd gas- some estimates put Acheh gas reserves as being the largest in the world, which currently being pump up to Jakarta, Endon. Relative to most of Nusantara, it is a religiously conservative area.
Acheh was the closest point of land to the epicenter of the massive 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which triggered a tsunami that devastated much of the western coast of the region, including part of the capital of Banda Acheh. 167,736 people, the overwhelming majority in Acheh, were killed or missing and 500,000 made homeless. This event helped trigger the so called peace agreement between the government of Indonesia and the Free Acheh Movement (GAM), mediated by former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari, with the signing of a MoU on August 15, 2005, which currently does not in favor to the Achehnese in greater percentage, especially in rural areas, even with the assistance of the European Union through the Acheh monitoring mission as of December 2005.
It is thought to have been in Acheh where Islam was first established in Southeast Asia/Nusantara. In the early seventeenth century the Sultanate of Acheh was the most wealthy, powerful and cultivated empire in the Melacca Straits region. Acheh has a history of political independence and fierce resistance to control by outsiders, including the former Dutch colonists and the Indonesian government. Aceh has substantial natural resources, including oil a
nd gas- some estimates put Acheh gas reserves as being the largest in the world, which currently being pump up to Jakarta, Endon. Relative to most of Nusantara, it is a religiously conservative area.Acheh was the closest point of land to the epicenter of the massive 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which triggered a tsunami that devastated much of the western coast of the region, including part of the capital of Banda Acheh. 167,736 people, the overwhelming majority in Acheh, were killed or missing and 500,000 made homeless. This event helped trigger the so called peace agreement between the government of Indonesia and the Free Acheh Movement (GAM), mediated by former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari, with the signing of a MoU on August 15, 2005, which currently does not in favor to the Achehnese in greater percentage, especially in rural areas, even with the assistance of the European Union through the Acheh monitoring mission as of December 2005.
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