The incomplete reintegration in the restive province of Aceh, Indonesia, is testing its sustainability of the long-awaited peace process, a local official said here Sunday.

Head of Aceh Cultural Center Hasballah M. Saad said in an interview with Xinhua that currently Acehnese have been divided into the sentiments of pro-former rebel of the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian Armed Forces.

"Both the GAM and the military had fought for 30 years and are now in peace. We want peace on condition that the GAM members are fully reintegrated," he said.

More than 2.6 million of 4.2 million Acehneses are to chose directly the governor and 19 heads of regency and mayors on Monday, as an implementation of the peace accord between Jakarta and the GAM on August 15 in 2005, in Helsinki, Finland, to terminate the three-decade bloodshed in the oil-and-gas rich province that claimed over 15,000 lives, most of them civilians.

Zulkipli, a 45-year-old Acehnese, a victim of the military brutality, said he supported former rebel to be the governor of Aceh.

"I prefer to chose GAM member," he said.

Meanwhile, a 22-year-old university student named Nada said some ex-rebels were reluctant to interact with communities due to their guilty feeling of harming the civilians in the past.

"They (GAM members) cannot interact well with communities," said Nada.

Hasballah said that the result of observation of the International organization of Migrants indicated most of psychotic and social problems occurred among the ex-combatants of the rebel and victims of conflicts.

"Their number is huge. We cannot only talk about economic development program without paying attention on psychotic and social issues," said Hasballah.

Aceh Monitoring Mission spokesman Yury Lass said that there were some delays in the reintegration program, although some achievements were gained.

"Reintegration is something that takes a lot of time, of course this will take their commitment (government and GAM)," he said.

Lass said democratic and legitimate government was a good thing that brings the reintegration process forward.

Former rebel spokesman Bachtiar Abdullah said, "The reintegration will be an catalyst of the settlement of the other problem."

The spokesman expressed his disappointment over the slow of work of the Aceh Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Agency.

Hasballah said that only 30 percent of the funds managed by the agency can be absorbed by the agency.

"The fact in the field until today, we see refugees still live in barracks, how could this happens," said Abdullah.

Indonesian Information Minister Sofyan Djalil said that the most important thing is to develop economy and increase investment to offer more jobs to Acehnese people.

Djalil said that the government has added over 1.5 trillion rupiah (some 1.5 billion U.S. dollars) for the province to boost development.

Source: Xinhua