(18 May 2003) SHOTLIST

1. Malik Mahmud descends stairs
2. Cutaway journalist
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Malik Mahmud, Aceh rebel leader:
"Well as you know it is the Indonesians wish to make war on the Acehnese, as they have already made statements announced many times over these few months, so this is in fact a well-planned move by the Indonesians to resume war in Aceh. And that is how they wish to settle the problem, by violence."
4. Wiryono descends stairs
5. Cutaway journalist
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sastro Handoyo Wiryono, lead Indonesian government negotiator:
"And I think we almost got an agreement but there is one thing that for the government is not negotiable which is is the integrity and sovereignty of the country"
7. Wide of Wiryono being interviewed
8. Wide of press interviewing delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia) Malik Mahmud, Aceh rebel leader:
"We reject the Indonesian governments request which is for autonomy for Aceh and for the disbandment of GAM (Free Aceh Movement)."
10. Wide of press interviewing Wiryono
11. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia) Sastro Handoyo Wiryono, lead Indonesian government negotiator:
"Today our discussions to bring peace to Aceh have failed, but everyone in the world still wishes for peace. We will have to think how to bring peace to Aceh by another means."
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Steven Daly, Steve Daly, Henri Dunant Centre:
"The Henri Dunant centre for Humanitarian Dialogue has been engaged in last-minute efforts to bring the government of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement together in an attempt to resolve their immediate differences, and avert a resumption of conflict. Those efforts have unfortunately been unsuccessful."
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Malik Mahmud, Aceh rebel leader:
"Yes, in war there is always a chance."
14. Indonesian government delegates leave by car

STORYLINE:
Two days of talks between separatist rebels and Indonesian officials ended in failure Sunday, with no agreement on how to salvage a faltering peace pact and avert the almost certain outbreak of war in the Indonesian province of Aceh.

As the two sides sat down for the second day of negotiations in Tokyo, thousands of Indonesian troops massed in the war-torn, resource-rich province on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra.

But despite the threat of war, the rebels refused to comply with Indonesia's demand they disarm and accept special autonomy, not independence.

The chief rebel negotiator said he believed the Indonesian government had no intention of compromising from the start of the talks and accused Jakarta of seeking a pretext for war.

Indonesia's chief government negotiator said the two sides nearly reached an agreement during the roughly 13 hours of talks Sunday. But he said the issue of independence for the region was not on the table.

"One thing that is not negotiable is the integrity and sovereignty of the country," said Indonesian chief negotiator Sastrohandoyo Wiryono. He said he had come on a "mission of peace."

The two-day peace talks were arranged under pressure from international donors alarmed by the prospect of a return to hostilities in Aceh, where more than 12-thousand people have been killed in fighting since 1976.

An agreement signed in Geneva on 9 December halted a 26-year insurgency in the oil- and gas-rich province, 1770 kilometers (1200 miles) northwest of Jakarta. But it has unraveled in recent months following violence by both sides and mutual recriminations.


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