Msia urges diplomatic solution in Aceh province

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The government hopes a diplomatic solution will be found to the crisis in neighbouring Indonesia's Aceh, a minister said today, as hundreds of troops parachuted into the province and rockets blasted suspected rebel positions.

"I hope it will be resolved amicably and in a very peaceful manner," Deputy Defence Minister Mohamad Shafie Apdal told reporters.

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