Aceh, the only region in Indonesia granted special autonomy to enact explicitly sharia-based laws, has been in the news a lot of late due to their…

Shannon Power, Aceh – the only province in Indonesia to rule with Islamic Sharia Law – has furthered its clampdown on the LGBTI community, this…

The Muhammadiyah Youth Greater Aceh regional board (PDPM) in cooperation with the Indonesian National Youth Committee (KNPI) held a seminar on the…

Greater Aceh regent Mawardi Ali has again issued a circular. This time the regional government has banned beauty salons from being run by or…

Indonesian police said Sunday they would press ahead with an investigation into officers accused of publicly shaming transgender people in…

The North Aceh regional police recently arrested 12 transgender women (waria) and forced them to become normal men again.

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Aceh Governor Aceh Irwandi Yusuf has spoken at a rally by Islamic organizations (ormas) supporting the actions of North Aceh regency police chief…

Protesters from some 147 organisations (ormas) held a protest action at the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in the Acehnese provincial capital of Banda…

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – Transgender people have been fleeing the sharia-ruled Indonesian province of Aceh amid fears of further violence, an exodus…

Even in ultra-conservative Aceh – the only province in Indonesia allowed to implement Islamic sharia law – last Sunday's persecution of 12…

Banda Aceh, Indonesia – Muslims in conservative Aceh province are protesting against an investigation into local police who rounded up and…

Kyle Knight – Indonesia's police chief General Tito Karnavian has ordered his provincial head in Aceh province to question a subordinate about…

Jakarta – Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi has expressed his support for Aceh Besar Regent Mawardi Ali's decision to require female cabin…

An Indonesian province said Tuesday it is ordering Muslim female flight attendants landing in the region to don a hijab upon arrival – or face…

Shannon Power – Trans women in Indonesia's Aceh province are trying to flee after police detained a group of women and forcibly cut their hair.…

Jakarta – Rights group Amnesty International Indonesia has lambasted the arrest of 12 transgender women in Aceh and called for discrimination…

Shannon Power – A group trans women arrested in Indonesia fought and cried as police arrested them in the north western province of Aceh.

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Indonesian police forcibly cut the hair of a group of transgender women and made them wear male clothing, authorities said Monday, amid a…

Mukhlis, Lhoksukon, Aceh – Early on Sunday police and wilayatul hisbah (WH, sharia police) detained 12 transgender women (waria) from a number of…

Andreas Harsono – Indonesian police and Sharia (Islamic law) police jointly raided five hair salons owned by transgender women in Aceh province on…

Anna Verdon – A woman and her partner were publicly whipped for getting "too close" to each other just days before their wedding. The shocking…

Caretakers of a mosque in the city of Meulaboh, Aceh cut down 10 pine trees that were planted just outside the house of worship's front fence.…

An Indonesian Christian was publicly flogged on Friday for selling alcohol in conservative Aceh province, a violation of Islamic law, as a crowd…

Jakarta (Antara) – In this day of age, punishment with shackles still exists. Social Worker Association (IPSM) recently found such a…

Banda Aceh – The Banda Aceh City Government prohibits its citizens from celebrating the New Year. Leaflets announcing the ban are posted in public…

Adi Warsidi (Contributor), Banda Aceh – Dozens of journalists in Banda Aceh from numerous organizations and media held a prayer on Monday,…

Balawyn Jones – On December 26, 2004, a tsunami struck Aceh Province in Indonesia, resulting in unprecedented destruction and loss of life.

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Katharina R. Lestari – Seven transgender women were arrested and temporarily detained by Shariah police in Indonesia's Banda Aceh for having "bad…

Shannon Power – A group of trans women attending a birthday province were targeted by vigilantes in Indonesia.

The women were attending the…

Kyle Knight – Militant Islamist vigilantes targeted a group of transgender women attending a birthday celebration in Indonesia's Aceh province on…

Rachel Eddie – Hundreds of people have been publicly flogged in Indonesia since the Aceh province introduced stricter Sharia by-laws two years ago…

Andreas Harsono – More than 530 people have been publicly flogged in Indonesia's Aceh province since a new Islamic criminal code was enacted in…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Indonesia's second largest Islamic organization Muhammadiyah has urged Aceh authorities to track down and arrest…

Samantha Hawley, Indonesia – Just months after two gay men were publicly caned in the Indonesian province of Aceh, a woman has received hospital…

More than 10,000 people turned out in Indonesia's Aceh Sunday to stage a record-breaking song and dance performance stressing the need to conserve…

Jon Emont, Jakarta, Indonesia – Two months after Indonesia's most conservative province drew international headlines for publicly caning two young…

Shannon Power – After an international outcry over the public caning of two gay men in Aceh, the province will make future canings private.

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Kyle Knight – The authorities in Aceh – Indonesia's only province that implements full Sharia (Islamic law) – clearly feel stung by the…

Jakarta – Aceh Governor Irwandi Yusuf has said President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has instructed him to encourage investment in the province.

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Jakarta – Aceh's Lhokseumawe Police arrested on Saturday nine alleged gamblers – including two village heads and a village official – at a food…

Krithika Varagur, Banda Aceh – It was the young who came first to Indonesia's public caning of gay men. They arrived on motorbikes and on foot,…

A Liberal MP says the "cruel and sickening" caning of two gay men in Aceh has cast a cloud over Australia's relationship with Indonesia.

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This sickening spectacle, carried out in front of more than a thousand jeering spectators, is an act of utmost cruelty – Josef Benedict, Deputy…

Two Indonesian men were caned on Tuesday in front of a jeering crowd as a punishment for gay sex, in a first for the Muslim-majority country where…

Karuni Rompies and Jewel Topsfield, Banda Aceh – The crowd roared as two men in their early 20s – one muttering through clenched teeth – received…

Jakarta – The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned the Aceh administration's plan to sentence two men to public caning for engaging in same-sex…

New York – Indonesia's President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo should immediately intervene to prevent the scheduled May 23, 2017 public flogging of two…

Jakarta – The Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR) has condemned the decision of a sharia court in Banda Aceh to sentence a 24-year-old…

Lane Sainty – Activists are fearful about the potentially far-reaching implications of a brutal lashing punishment handed down to two men…

Responding to the sentencing of two gay men to 85 lashes each for consensual same-sex sexual relations, Amnesty International's Deputy Director…