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, ...

The 2005 Helsinki agreement, which ended almost three decades of armed conflict between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the ...

Aceh continues to rank among Indonesia’s poorest provinces, despite its vast natural resources and a multi-billion-dollar ...

An Islamic court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province has sentenced two men to public caning, 80 times each, for what ...

The Aceh Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) revealed that this number includes baby and juvenile elephants.

Aceh, on the northern tip of Sumatra, is one of Indonesia’s most religiously conservative areas, and is the only part of the archipelago to impose penalties on its residents under Islamic law.

Five of the 18 Acehnese fishermen arrested by Thai authorities on charges of illegal fishing are scheduled to be released on ...

Thailand will free five of 18 Acehnese fishermen detained for illegal fishing, amid recurring cross-border arrests in the region.

Two men in Aceh, Indonesia were publicly caned 80 times each for same-sex affection, deemed a violation of Sharia law ...

An Islamic court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Monday sentenced two college students to 80 lashes each in ...

The evidence seized consists of 4,000 Happy Five pills, packaged in 40 bundles inside a bag. Happy five is a hard drug known ...