Deep-rooted in the people of Aceh is an acute sense of the province's glorious history and a devout belief in Allah. They fought shoulder to shoulder with the Javanese to throw off the Dutch yoke after World War II, thereby helping to bring the nation of Indonesia into being. When Sukarno then declared Indonesia a secular republic rather than a Muslim nation in 1950, they felt cheated and refused to be part of it.
輝煌的歷史和堅貞的信仰深植亞齊人靈魂深處，這也是二次大戰後，亞齊和爪哇雖並肩作戰反抗荷蘭，促成印尼獨立建國；但 1950 年印尼國父蘇卡諾宣布他所領導的新國家是一般共和國，並非伊斯蘭國家時，亞齊人頓覺被欺騙，轉而拒絕認同加入。