Post-War Reconstruction (A Case Study of Violence Tragedy in Rumoh Geudong, North Aceh, Krueng Arakundoe, East Aceh and Jambo Keupok, South Aceh)

This research describes and critically analyzes the post-war reconstruction in Aceh. A special attention is paid on the violence tragedy in Rumoh Geudong, North Aceh, Krueng Arakundoe, East Aceh and Jambo Keupok, South Aceh. The field research has been conducted by means of participant observation as the principal method of this empirical study. Besides a meticulous observation, in-depth discussions with informants who are competent and engaged directly on the problems have also been used. Library research has also been done to complement the research results from observation and in- depth discussion. The result showed that since the peace agreement was concluded by parties who hate each other, the government’s function as the developer of the post-understanding process has not been shown substantially. This has further enhanced the new forms of violence that were carried out after the previous violence. This means nothing to the power of peace itself. Post-war reconstruction did not substantially occur, on the contrary, destruction. Reconstruction with a deeper meaning cannot solve the problem of the rights of war victims, but what is more important is the process carried out by the state. Rebuilding the psychological condition is at the core of post-war reconstruction, this research findings do not hit the main target, done but not intact, just as it is not done. The total reconstruction, which is still absent, will have an impact on the existence of war victims. Human values during the 14 years of peace are not programmed in priority at all. This is an obstacle to the creation of substantial sustainable peace. The collapse of the state’s responsibility to unravel all cases of dehumanization, has an impact on the increasingly dominating pragmatic value, which means that the value of the existence of war victims is very minimal, even closer to nothing.