Abstrack:
Indonesia is one of the biggest unitary states in the world with all its complexity. There is a long history of the struggle for national independence has a lot of side of story for each region in this country, especially in Aceh. Aceh is one of the regions of Indonesia that have a track record of insurgency for decades and during those insurgency era, the counter insurgency policy from central government was dominated by military strategy than the softer ones like a bigger right for Aceh to rule localized development policy. That military counter insurgency strategy failed to deprive armed conflict Aceh and precisely corrupt civilian rights on daily basis. In 2005, Indonesia and Aceh got the turning point of their relationship based on successful diplomacy agreement in MOU of Helsinki. In that agreement, both sides agree to delegated more authority to local government in Aceh. Nowadays, after 13 years, Aceh has been in its best fit of relationship with Indonesia and Aceh got more than enough significant enhancement in their development. This paper provides argument that there are strong correlations between development policy and security especially in conflict or post insurgency conflict area that counter insurgency strategy should not dominated by military force anymore but through bigger rights for local to pursue their development. This paper will be important as alternative perspective that development is fully integrated and holistic way with so many aspect issues even for security.
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