JAKARTA: At least 22 villages in Aceh were wiped out and dozens more remain isolated following the devastating impact of ...

Protests have erupted in Aceh Province on the northern tip of Sumatra island, where anger and frustration are mounting over ...

Indonesia elevó el nivel de alerta para el volcán Monte Bur Ni Telong en la provincia más occidental del país, Aceh, al ...

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, ...

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As Hamdaniyah Surbakti, a 62-year-old resident of Aceh province, began to pick up the pieces of her house that was destroyed by last month’s severe floods, she inevitably thought about the 2004 ...

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 ...

Recently, 23-year-old Australian Bodhi Mani Risby-Jones made global headlines after he attacked a local fisherman during a drunken, naked rampage in Aceh, an ultraconservative Muslim-majority province ...

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 ...

Rohingya women at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, March 2018. Credit: UN Women/Allison Joyce A harrowing scenario is currently playing itself out in Aceh, Indonesia, marked by political ...

A few minutes after the catastrophic Indian Ocean earthquake of Dec. 26, 2004, two massive explosions tore through Lampuuk, a small seaside village in the Indonesian province of Aceh. “I thought they ...

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 ...