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Indonesia's North Sumatra and Aceh provinces have been embroiled in a dispute over the control of four islands, but a video ...
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 ...
By bno - Jakarta Office In June 2025, Indonesia settled a long-running territorial dispute between two of its westernmost ...
2005-12-25 04:00:00 PDT Banda Aceh, Indonesia-- The morality enforcers, a squad of men clad in green trousers and white shirts and women in white head scarves, stride on to this provincial capital ...
About 250 Rohingya refugees crammed onto a wooden boat have been turned away from western Indonesia and sent back to sea, residents said Friday.. The group from the persecuted Myanmar minority ...
Acehnese women walk crying through a flattened village by tidal waves in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia's Sumatra island, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004.
In Aceh province, the area hardest hit by the disaster, about 170,000 were said to have died. He said that there was "a sea of debris, a sea of destruction and bodies everywhere".
Item 1 of 5 Rohingya refugees walk after their arrival at the beach in Gampong Baro village, Aceh Besar, Aceh province, Indonesia, January 8, 2023, in this photo taken by Antara Foto.
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia—Devastated a decade ago by the Indian Ocean tsunami, the Indonesian province of Aceh has turned in its recovery to religion and strict Shariah law. Many Acehnese say the ...
One year after the tsunami, Aceh is testament both to the successes and the failures that can come from billions of dollars in aid money. IE 11 is not supported.
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 ...