Lhokseumawe, Oct 18, SPA -- Indonesia withdrew more than2,100 more troops from Aceh on Tuesday and rebels completedtheir second round of weapons decommissioning, both sidesmoving quickly to implement a peace agreement to end one ofAsia's longest running wars. Dozens of locals turned up at Lhokseumawe port in northAceh to wave the soldiers off. The head of the EU-led monitoring mission overseeing thepeace accord, which was signed two months ago in Finland,was also present. "Hopefully, this can really lead to an eternal peacehere," said one marine, Lt. Col. I Ketut Suwarya. The 2,163 soldiers who left Tuesday were the first batchof some 6,000 troops slated to be pulled out this week. Themilitary has already withdrawn some 6,500 soldiers underthe agreement, The Associated Press reported.--SPA1340 Local Time 1040 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/297076