The root of the opposition "The people of Aceh feel they were betrayed," says Chen. They contributed the most to the war for independence from the Dutch, but all they got from the new government, whose power base was Java, was Indonesian citizenship. Aceh's request to be independent was rejected and its use of Islamic law prohibited.
反政府濫觴「亞齊人認為遭到背叛，」陳俐甫指出，在反荷獨立戰爭中，亞齊人出力最多，但以爪哇勢力為主的新政府回報的，卻是將亞齊納入印尼民族，廢除亞齊的獨立邦國地位，並禁止亞齊的伊斯蘭法律特權。