"This oversimplifies the complexity of Aceh issues," says Chen Li-fu, an assistant professor of political science at Aletheia University who is one of the few Taiwanese academics to study Aceh's separatist movement. Chen says that mainstream Western scholarship contrasts Aceh's ties to fundamentalist Islam and the pro-Western stance of Indonesia's government. It therefore sees the Aceh conflict as a clash between modern Western civilization and ancient Islamic culture.
「這樣是過度簡化了亞齊問題的複雜性，」台灣少數研究亞齊分離運動的政治學者、真理大學助理教授陳俐甫說，西方主流學界多強調亞齊和伊斯蘭基本教義陣營的關係，以及印尼政府的親西方立場，而把「亞獨」視為近代西方文明和古老伊斯蘭文化的競技場。