Hundreds of Rohingya refugees were on Tuesday given shelter for three months in western Indonesia, the country's immigration office said, after…
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November 21, 2023
Associated Press, Lhokseumawe – Almost 1,000 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar have arrived by boat in Indonesia's northernmost province of Aceh in…
November 20, 2023
Bireuen – Three boats filled with more than 500 Rohingya refugees landed in Indonesia's westernmost province on Sunday, a UN agency said, in one…
November 18, 2023
Laurel Sutherlin – Picture a rhinoceros in the rainforest. Add a herd of elephants, families of orangutans swinging through the treetops, and…
November 17, 2023
Aisyah Llewellyn, Medan, Indonesia – Indonesia is facing a renewed refugee crisis after the arrival of three boats in as many days with nearly 600…
November 14, 2023
Jakarta – About one hundred Rohingya landed in Indonesia's Aceh province on Tuesday, the chief of a local fishing community said, the latest batch…
October 26, 2023
Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has recognized community claims to ancestral forests in the Sumatran province of Aceh for…
August 11, 2023
Banda Aceh – Authorities in Indonesia's ultra-conservative Aceh province have ordered men and women not immediately related or married to stay…
July 28, 2023
Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Indonesian government plans this year to recognize community claims to ancestral forests in the Sumatran…
June 30, 2023
Kornelius Purba, Jakarta – In her victory speech after the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) won the June 1999 legislative election…
June 27, 2023
M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is set to launch a program of non-judicial settlement of past gross human rights…
Dian Erika Nugraheny, Jakarta – A victim of the Kertas Kraft Aceh pulp and paper mill in Aceh massacre, known as Simpang KKA, Samsul Bahri, said…
June 23, 2023
Aceh – The Central Aceh Transitional Committee (KPA), which is a forum for former Free Aceh Movement (GAM) combatants, firmly opposes the…
Jakarta – The remains of the Geudong House (Rumoh Geudong) in Pidie regency, Aceh, where gross human rights abuses were committed when Aceh was…
June 20, 2023
Antara, Jakarta – The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) reported that the trend of disaster events in Aceh has begun to shift from floods…
June 13, 2023
Antara, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo will kick off the non-judicial settlement of cases of past gross human rights violations in Aceh…
June 7, 2023
James Callery – An unmarried couple have been publicly whipped 21 times each for breaking Sharia law in Indonesia's Aceh district after they were…
June 6, 2023
Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore/Jakarta – Six weeks after being arrested for running amok in deeply conservative Aceh, Australian…
May 26, 2023
Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore – Bodhi Mani Risby-Jones, the Australian man arrested in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province over…
May 20, 2023
Anne Barker, Indonesia – Bodhi Risby-Jones's lawyer and family had hoped to strike a private deal that would see him released without charge, for…
May 17, 2023
Endang Nurdin, Indonesia – Eleven Indonesian villagers from Aceh province have reached a confidential financial settlement with oil giant…
May 16, 2023
New York, United States – ExxonMobil settled Monday a long-running lawsuit brought by Aceh villagers who alleged human rights violations by…
May 8, 2023
Antara, Jakarta – Eight sub-regencies in the West Aceh Regency are reportedly inundated under floodwater that is reportedly measured…
April 30, 2023
Karuni Rompies and Chris Barrett, Simeulue, Indonesia – The chief of the village where an Australian man embarked on an alleged naked rampage…
April 28, 2023
Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies – A young Australian man has been arrested in Indonesia's ultra-conservative Aceh province, accused of an alcohol…
March 28, 2023
Lhokseumawe, Indonesia – More than 180 disoriented Rohingya Muslims, some of whom needed medical attention, arrived in the early morning in…
March 3, 2023
Jakarta – Aceh's traditional leader (Wali Nanggroe Aceh), Tgk Malik Mahmud Al Haytar, has handed over data on 5,000 cases of human rights…
February 16, 2023
February 10, 2023
February 2, 2023
Jakarta – A Sumatran tiger attacked and injured two farmers in Aceh Wednesday, the second such attack in days, as officials vowed to capture the…
January 24, 2023
Antara, Banda Aceh – The Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of North Aceh district, Aceh province, has reported that 21,389 people from 4,…
January 9, 2023
Jakarta – A boat with 185 Rohingya refugees landed on the shores of Aceh province on Sunday, a local disaster agency official said, following…
January 7, 2023
Pallavi Pundir (Vice), Aceh – It's just another day in Banda Aceh, the capital city of Indonesia's only Sharia-regulated province and one of its…
December 28, 2022
Latika Bourke – The United Nations refugee agency has praised Indonesia's decision to rescue hundreds of Rohingya refugees who were abandoned by…
December 27, 2022
Agencies, Banda Aceh, Aceh – Rohingya refugees received emergency medical treatment after a boat carrying nearly 200 people came ashore in Aceh on…
December 26, 2022
Banda Aceh, Indonesia – Dozens of hungry and weak Rohingya Muslims were found on a beach in Indonesia's northernmost province on Sunday after…
November 15, 2022
Jakarta – A boat carrying 111 Rohingya refugees, including women and children, landed on the shores of Aceh on Tuesday, authorities said, the…
November 6, 2022
Antara, Jakarta – The floods that have submerged several areas in Aceh Tamiang District, Aceh Province, over the past few days have…
October 24, 2022
Haryanto and Rizkika Lhena Darwin – In recent years, voters in the world's third-largest democracy, Indonesia, have preferred to support…
October 4, 2022
Mohammad Arief Hidayat and Dani Randi (Banda Aceh) – The chairperson of the Acehnese Regional House of Representatives' (DPR Aceh) Commission V…
September 26, 2022
M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – The democratic festivity is a bleak period for trans women in Aceh. They could potentially fall victim to a 'witch hunt'…
July 23, 2022
Jakarta – The National Police have arrested 13 suspected militants believed to be members of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and Jemaah Ansharut…
July 19, 2022
Authorities in Aceh are pursuing a foreign tourist after she was filmed committing one of the biggest cultural and religious faux pas in the…
July 14, 2022
Jakarta – The Aceh representative office of the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) says that it has handed over three alleged cases of…
March 21, 2022
Beril Huliselan – Since the attacks, arson, and demolition of several churches in Aceh Singkil Regency, Aceh Province, Indonesia (2015), religious…
March 6, 2022
Yayan Zamzami, Banda Aceh, Indonesia – More than 100 hungry and weak Rohingya Muslims were found on a beach in Indonesia's northernmost province…
February 27, 2022
Antara, Jakarta – A flood triggered by incessant heavy rains over the last two days displaced hundreds of residents of Alue Ie Mirah Village,…
February 8, 2022
Aisyah Llewellyn, Medan, Indonesia – John Doe can still recall the moment his alleged torturers made him believe he would never see his family…
February 2, 2022
A fishing community in Indonesia's Aceh region is demanding protection from prosecution after three fishermen were sentenced to prison last year…
January 28, 2022
Aceh Jaya – Nearly a dozen poachers were jailed by an Aceh court Thursday over the 2020 killing of five critically endangered Sumatran elephants…