The victims were killed late Monday when two men on a motorcycle opened
fire on a small van decorated with pictures of election candidates from the
Aceh Party, which dominates local politics.
Police said it was not clear who the gunmen were although there has been an
upsurge in politically-linked attacks ahead of the April 9 polls.
The violence highlighted that security remains fragile in Aceh, on the
northernmost tip of Sumatra island, almost a decade after a peace deal ended a
30-year separatist insurgency in the province that left some 25,000 people dead.