(15 Sep 2005) SHOTLIST
1. Convoys carrying rebels arriving in park where rebels are handing over weapons
2. Rebels taking out weapons
3. Weapons
4. Rebels showing off weapons
5. Various of rebels putting weapons on table
6. Various weapons close up
7. Taking away weapons in wheel cart
8. Foreign officials monitoring peace deal
9. Various of weapons being registered
10. Various of foreign monitors destroying weapons, chopping weapons into pieces with chainsaws
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sofyan Djalil, Indonesian Information Minister and Member Indonesian Delegation in charge of peace deal:
"We are quite delighted with the event today... that the surrender of weapons takes place on schedule but of course technical problems will still be discussed, which one of those weapons are acceptable or not, this is a technical problem, not my problem but over all it shows that confidence building is taking place as expected."
12. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia) Irwandi Yusuf, Rebel Representative:
"What will be the next step? The next step (will be that) we will surrender more arms until we surrender 840 weapons."
13. Small shop
14. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia) Voxpop (No name given):
"I think personally because the peace deal has been reached both sides have to be able to implement the deal, both sides are now united again and they are brothers now."
15. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia) Voxpop (No name given):
"This surrendering of weapons is very good, because with this surrender Aceh can be peaceful, this peace is the hope of all Aceh people."
16. Various of Indonesian military personnel in Aceh
STORYLINE
Separatist rebels in Aceh province handed over their first batch of weapons on Thursday to international monitors, a key step in a recent peace deal that has brought hope to the tsunami-ravaged region.
Rebel commanders and around 20 lower-ranking insurgents placed several bags containing 84 weapons, including grenade launchers, AK-47 assault rifles and handguns, on the ground at a park in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh.
The accord, signed in Finland, Helsinki a month ago, is seen as the best chance the region has had in years to end a three-decade civil war that claimed 15-thousand lives, many of them civilians.
The handover was witnessed by journalists and government and military officials.
The monitors inspected each firearm and then fed them into a circular saw, cutting them into three pieces.
Sofyan Djalil, Indonesian Information Minister and Member Indonesian Delegation in charge of peace deal said that the handover was an important confidence-building act.
Rebel spokesman Irwandi Yusuf said that "the next step (will be that) we will surrender more arms until we surrender 840 weapons".
Under the terms of the accord, the rebels must hand over a quarter of their 840 firearms to the international monitors by Saturday and the remainder by the year's end.
In the next two weeks, the military must pull out nearly seven thousand of 32-thousand soldiers and police slated to leave the province on Sumatra island's northern tip.
Another 25-thousand will stay behind.
Efforts to end the 29-year civil war picked up pace after the December 26 tsunami crashed into coastlines, killing 131-thousand people in Aceh and leaving a half-million (m) others homeless.
The Free Aceh Movement rebels and the Indonesian government returned to the negotiating table saying they did not want to add to people's suffering and hammered out an agreement that satisfied both sides.
More than 220 European and Southeast Asian international monitors have been deployed across the region to oversee the process.
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