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, ...

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

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

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

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

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

Aceh’s multi-billion-dollar special autonomy fund from Indonesia’s central government is set to expire in 2027. The fund was ...

Prosecutors had sought to punish the men with 85 cane strokes each, but Hum reduced the punishment because the accused men ...

The evidence seized consists of 4,000 Happy Five pills, packaged in 40 bundles inside a bag. Happy five is a hard drug known ...

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 ...