Aceh continues to rank among Indonesia’s poorest provinces, despite its vast natural resources and a multi-billion-dollar ...

JAKARTA: "If you run, you are shot. If you don't, you are beaten," a 20-year-old Acehnese man said about life in the region, ...

The 2005 Helsinki agreement, which ended almost three decades of armed conflict between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the ...

An Islamic court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province has sentenced two men to public caning, 80 times each, for what ...

The Aceh Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) revealed that this number includes baby and juvenile elephants.

Thailand will free five of 18 Acehnese fishermen detained for illegal fishing, amid recurring cross-border arrests in the region.

Aug 15 marks 20 years since a peace deal between the Free Aceh Movement and Indonesia's central government ended an armed ...

Monday’s verdict was the fifth time that Aceh has sentenced people to public caning for homosexuality since the Islamic law ...

An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province sentences 2 men to public caning for having gay sex ...

Five of the 18 Acehnese fishermen arrested by Thai authorities on charges of illegal fishing are scheduled to be released on ...

Dozens of people witnessed the caning at Banda Aceh's Tamansari city park. It's the third time that Aceh, the only province in Indonesia to practice Shariah law, has caned people for homosexuality ...

Building peace is one thing, but keeping it is another thing altogether, as a boundary dispute over four small islands off ...