Hammam Izzuddin, Jakarta – Indonesia's Aceh Regional Police has established 94 drug-free villages (KBDN) across all regencies and cities. The Aceh…

Thresa Sandra Desfika, Jakarta – Nagan Cipta Nusantara (NCN) has unveiled plans to develop a dedicated coal terminal port and a 10-kilometer…

Banda Aceh – A gay couple were punished with a sentence of 76 lashes each in public at Bustanussalatin Park in the Acehnese provincial capital of…

Responding to today's caning of two men in the city of Banda Aceh for having consensual same-sex sexual relations, Amnesty International's…

Jakarta – This month 20 years ago, the world witnessed something rare: The successful resolution of a decades-long separatist conflict in…

Aimee Gabay, Jakarta – Some of the world's biggest consumer brands are banding together to tackle deforestation in one of Earth's richest…

Yvette Tanamal, 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, as…

Today marks 20 years since the Helsinki Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by the Government of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement (…

Salman Mardira, Banda Aceh, Aceh – Aceh Governor Muzakir "Mualem" Manaf has urged residents to refrain from hoisting the province's crescent-and-…

Associated Press, Banda Aceh – An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on Monday sentenced two men to public caning 80…

Banda Aceh – A gay couple who were apprehended by officials in the Sari Park toilet in the Acehnese capital of Banda Aceh with the initials QH (20…

The Bumi Flora (Earth of Flowers) Tragedy occurred exactly 24 years ago. This tragedy was a mass murder of workers at the company PT Bumi Flora –…

Cut Mery, Jakarta – An employee of the Banda Aceh City Government has been arrested by the Indonesian National Police's Special Detachment 88 (…

Alif Ilham Fajriadi, Jakarta – The President of the Student Senate of the State Islamic University of Ar-Raniry, Teuku Raja Aulia Habibi, rejected…

Adi Warsidi, Jakarta – The Indonesian government officially inaugurated the construction of the Memorial Living Park built on the former site of…

Banda Aceh – A number of residents from the Aceh People's Alliance have opposed and challenged the establishment of Territorial Development…

Jakarta – National unity faced an impromptu challenge recently when a dispute erupted between the country's two westernmost provinces after the…

Dian Rahma Fika, Jakarta – The Wali Nanggroe of Aceh Malik Mahmud Al Haythar hopes for the endorsement of regulations regarding the raising of the…

Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – President Prabowo has ruled that the four islands previously disputed between Aceh and North Sumatra fall under Aceh's…

Iil Askar Mondza, Banda Aceh – Former Chairperson of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), Otto Nur Abdullah, asserted that Home…

Iil Askar Monza, Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – The Aceh Provincial Government has banned students from leaving the residences after 10 p.m. local…

Alfitria Nefi P, Jakarta – The Directorate General of Corrections confirmed that dozens of inmates escaped from the Class II B Correctional…

Two men suspected of having a gay sex are canned in Aceh, the only Indonesian province with strict Sharia laws

Global rights group Amnesty…

Jordan Hirst – Human rights groups have slammed a conservative province in Indonesia for publicly flogging two men convicted of having consensual…

Jakarta – The Banda Aceh Public Order Agency and Wilayatul Hisbah (Satpol PP WH), or "sharia police", plans to intensify monitoring during of…

Agus Rahmat, Banda Aceh – A gay couple who were caught in a boarding house by local residents were sentenced to caning at the Sari Park in the…

Responding to the flogging of two university students in Indonesia's Aceh province for having consensual same-sex sexual relations, Amnesty…

Banda Aceh – Two men were publicly flogged in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on Thursday after they were found guilty of sexual relations…

Taufik Kelana, Banda Aceh – Two men were publicly caned in Banda Aceh, Aceh Province on Thursday after being convicted of engaging in same-sex…

Two male university students in a conservative province in Indonesia have been sentenced to flogging after neighbours caught them having…

Banda Aceh – A gay couple with the initials AI and DA, who were caught having sex in a raid by local residents at a boarding houses in Banda Aceh…

Taufik Kelana, Banda Aceh – Newly inaugurated Aceh Governor Muzakir Manaf vowed on Wednesday to repeal restrictions on the purchase of subsidized…

Banda Aceh – The prosecution in a case of a gay couple caught having sex at a boarding house in Syiah Kuala district, Banda Aceh city, has…

Taufik Kelana, Banda Aceh – Two university students from Banda Aceh in Aceh Province were caught by residents engaging in a same-sex relationship…

Agencies, Jakarta – Dozens of Rohingya refugees who arrived by boat at a beach in Aceh have been relocated to a temporary shelter after locals…

Agencies, Jakarta – At least 75 Rohingya refugees arrived by boat at a tourist beach in Aceh on Wednesday, but were stopped by authorities from…

Agus Setyadi, Jogja – Two men in the Acehnese provincial capital of Banda Aceh were caught having sexual relations after local residents broke…

Riri Rahayu, Jakarta – The government allotted Rp13 billion for the construction of a memorial living park in Pidie Regency, Aceh, as part of the…

Banda Aceh – More than 260 Rohingya refugees, including women and children, arrived in Aceh after floating at sea for days, an official said…

Cut Mery, Banda Aceh – The city government of Sabang, located in the conservative province of Aceh, issued a statement on Saturday banning any…

Radhiyya Indra, Banda Aceh – As Aceh commemorates 20 years since the 2004 earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands in the province,…

Banda Aceh – A siren rang out as survivors and relatives of victims began commemorations Thursday for more than 220,000 people killed when a…

Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies, Banda Aceh – Heri Syahrial thinks his family is here, somewhere under his feet and the crumbling path, amid the…

Norma Susanti R.M., The Conversation – The devastating 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami remains etched in the memories of many, especially…

Chontida Auikool – 20 years have passed since the Aceh tsunami, which left deep scars on Indonesia, especially for those directly affected. Aceh…

Zulfakriza Z. – 20 years have passed since the Aceh tsunami, which left deep scars on Indonesia, especially for those directly affected. Aceh was…

Jakarta – The Aceh Transition Committee (KPA) raised the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) flag during a ceremony that drew hundreds of attendees to…

Banda Aceh – More than 100 Rohingya refugees including women and children have been rescued after their boat sank off the coast of Indonesia, the…

Nandito Putra, Jakarta – The third debate of the Aceh Regional Election was forced to stop because supporters of the regional head candidates were…

Carolyn Cowan – Camera-trap surveys have documented a sizeable but struggling population of Sumatran tigers clinging on in unprotected forests in…