The regions hit by the floods and landslides in Aceh remain cut off from the government’s rescue efforts and aid delivery ...

Joint authorities in Aceh are working around the clock to open alternative land routes and flying in fuel to support road ...

Today marks 13 years since the government of Indonesia and the armed pro-independence movement, the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), signed a peace agreement in Helsinki. The peace deal ended 29 years of ...

Ten years ago on Friday, one of the deadliest natural disasters in history hit several Indian Ocean nations, killing as many as 230,000 people and causing untold damage. It was the Boxing Day tsunami, ...

MEULABOH, Indonesia — It is a little past noon on Friday, time for Anshari and his troops to spring into action. Their first stop is outside the gates of Meulaboh’s central mosque, where fruit and ...

People I have spoken to in Aceh often said that the tsunami of December 2004 brought peace to their community. Despite the significant losses suffered in the disaster, it led to the restoration of ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia: Aceh resident Nahrawi Noerdin was among the lucky ones to survive the devastating Indian ocean tsunami 20 years ago. The former small business operator was out at sea that ...

Banda Aceh, Indonesia – Hendra, an academic in Indonesia’s semi-autonomous region of Aceh, vaguely remembers the first time he saw a public caning take place in his 20s. It was years ago and it didn’t ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Two men in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were publicly caned Thursday after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them for having sex with each other. Dozens of ...

(Jakarta) – Indonesia’s central government and the Aceh provincial government should take steps to repeal two Islamic bylaws in Aceh province that violate rights and carry cruel punishments, Human ...

The conflict in Aceh, on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, is an increasingly brutal war in which both sides have violated human rights with impunity. The two sides are the ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. When a magnitude-9.0 undersea quake unleashed a tsunami in the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004, no place on land was closer than the Indonesian province ...