Current issues include: alleviating poverty, improving education,
preventing terrorism, consolidating democracy after four decades of authoritarianism,
implementing economic and financial reforms, stemming corruption, reforming the criminal
justice system, holding the military and police accountable for human rights violations,
addressing climate change, and controlling infectious diseases, particularly those of global and
regional importance. In 2005, Indonesia reached a historic peace agreement with armed
separatists in Aceh, which led to democratic elections in Aceh in December 2006. Indonesia
continues to face low intensity armed resistance in Papua by the separatist Free Papua
Movement.