It's the third time that people have been caned for homosexuality since Shariah law was implemented in Aceh in 2015 A team of five enforcers wearing robes and hoods took turns whipping the pair In ...

While hundreds of survivors of deadly floods and landslides in Aceh Tamiang have relocated to temporary housing sites, dozens ...

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, ...

West Aceh Regency recorded 10.27 years average schooling in 2025, above Aceh provincial & national averages, ranking 9th in ...

The Indonesian government and Aceh rebels on Monday signed a peace treaty to end nearly 30 years of fighting in the oil- and gas-rich province that killed 15,000 people. Subscribe to read this story ...

Pity the poor tourism officials of Aceh. Their job — promoting the beaches, jungles and rich culture of an unspoiled and underexplored Indonesian province — should be easy. But just as Aceh recovered ...

In this May 23, 2017, photo, a Sharia law official whips one of two men convicted of gay sex during a public caning outside a mosque in Banda Aceh, Aceh province Indonesia. In Indonesia’s conservative ...

Aceh Tamiang recorded 9.42 years average schooling in 2025 (up 1.29% YoY), ranking 14th in Aceh province, above national ...

Indonesian war planes attacked a rebel base and troops parachuted into restive Aceh province Monday, as the military launched a major offensive just hours after peace talks broke down and the ...