Peace negotiations to end the armed conflict in Aceh 20 years ago may provide a lesson to resolve today’s global conflicts, ...

By bno - Jakarta Office In June 2025, Indonesia settled a long-running territorial dispute between two of its westernmost ...

The Class I Immigration Office at the Banda Aceh Immigration Checkpoint (TPI) has deported a Malaysian citizen for violating ...

Indonesia's North Sumatra and Aceh provinces have been embroiled in a dispute over the control of four islands, but a video ...

In Aceh, the most orthodox corner of Muslim-majority Indonesia, gay sex is now punishable by 100 lashes. On a public stage. By a cane-wielding figure clad head-to-ankles in dark brown robes (with ...

PGN and Mubadala Energy have begun exploring the use of natural gas from the South Andaman Working Area (WK) in Aceh.

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.

Local children in Batee village, Aceh, Indonesia playing on a wooden fishing boat which was used to transport 233 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh. (Photo: CNA/Wisnu Agung Prasetyo) ...

Rohingya Muslim refugees are transported as they are relocated from their temporary shelter at Balai Meuseuraya Aceh, following the protest in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, December 27, 2023.

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.

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.