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

Kyle Knight – Indonesia's police chief General Tito Karnavian has ordered his provincial head in Aceh province to question a subordinate about raids his forces conducted over the weeken

Jakarta – Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi has expressed his support for Aceh Besar Regent Mawardi Ali's decision to require female cabin crew members of airlines to wear hijab

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.

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

Jakarta – Rights group Amnesty International Indonesia has lambasted the arrest of 12 transgender women in Aceh and called for discrimination against members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexu

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

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

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

Indonesian police forcibly cut the hair of a group of transgender women and made them wear male clothing, authorities said Monday, amid a crackdown on the LGBT community in the world's

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

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 of onlookers including children jeered.

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

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

Adi Warsidi (Contributor), Banda Aceh – Dozens of journalists in Banda Aceh from numerous organizations and media held a prayer on Monday, December 25, to commemorate fellow journalists who lost th

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

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

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 October 2015, new figures show.

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Samantha Hawley, Indonesia – Just months after two gay men were publicly caned in the Indonesian province of Aceh, a woman has received hospital treatment after receiving 100 lashes.

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 a threatened national park in the country's wester

Jon Emont, Jakarta, Indonesia – Two months after Indonesia's most conservative province drew international headlines for publicly caning two young gay men for having sex with each other, the govern

Kyle Knight – The authorities in Aceh – Indonesia's only province that implements full Sharia (Islamic law) – clearly feel stung by the international outcry they generated when police publicly flog

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

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

Jakarta – Aceh's Lhokseumawe Police arrested on Saturday nine alleged gamblers – including two village heads and a village official – at a food stall in Blang Raya village in Muara Dua district, Lh

Krithika Varagur, Banda Aceh – It was the young who came first to Indonesia's public caning of gay men.

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.

This sickening spectacle, carried out in front of more than a thousand jeering spectators, is an act of utmost cruelty – Josef Benedict, Deputy Director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific

Karuni Rompies and Jewel Topsfield, Banda Aceh – The crowd roared as two men in their early 20s – one muttering through clenched teeth – received 83 lashes each outside a mosque in the Indonesian p

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 there is mounting hostility towards the LGBT commu

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 relations. They will be subject to 85 lashes.

New York – Indonesia's President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo should immediately intervene to prevent the scheduled May 23, 2017 public flogging of two young men convicted of same-sex sexual relations, Hum

Lane Sainty – Activists are fearful about the potentially far-reaching implications of a brutal lashing punishment handed down to two men convicted of having sex in Indonesia's Aceh province.

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 man from Langkat, North Sumatra, and a 20-year-old ma

Responding to the sentencing of two gay men to 85 lashes each for consensual same-sex sexual relations, Amnesty International's Deputy Director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Josef Benedict, s

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – An Indonesian man gasped in horror after learning he and another man had been sentenced to 85 lashes for gay sex in the first conviction for homosexuality in Indonesia's

Banda Aceh – A sharia court in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province has sentenced two gay men to public caning, further undermining the country's moderate image after a Christian politician was i

Sharia prosecutors in Indonesia's Aceh province say two men on trial for gay sex should each be punished with 80 lashes, in another blow to the country's moderate image after a top Christian offici

Hotli Simanjuntak and Severianus Endi, Banda Aceh/Pontianak – After making strongly worded remarks against radicals propagating intolerance in his province, West Kalimantan Governor Cornelis was le

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – It has been 18 years to the day, but the government is yet to resolve an alleged gross human rights violation in Aceh in which Indonesian military personnel reporte

Adam Harvey, Indonesia – A video recording of Indonesian vigilantes detaining two young gay men captures them kicking, slapping and insulting the pair, shortly before they are turned over to the pr

Two Indonesians are to go on trial in an Islamic court for having gay sex and could receive 100 strokes of the cane if found guilty, officials in the conservative province of Aceh said, sparking ca

New York – Indonesian authorities should immediately and unconditionally release two men detained in Aceh province under a local ordinance that criminalizes homosexuality, Human Rights Watch said t

Banda Aceh, Indonesia – Two men in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province each face up to 100 strokes of the cane after neighbors reported them to Islamic religious police for having gay sex.

Shannon Power – Two men were arrested in the Indonesian province of Aceh under the accusation they were gay and in a relationship.