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

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, ...

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

Building peace is one thing, but keeping it is another thing altogether, as a boundary dispute over four small islands off ...

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

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

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

A sharia court in Indonesia has sentenced to men to public caning 80 times each after they were caught kissing. Their trial ...

Two men have been reportedly sentenced to public caning in Indonesia for hugging and kissing in a toilet. A court in the Aceh ...

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 has sentenced two men to public caning, 80 times each, for what ...

An Islamic court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Monday sentenced two men to public caning, 80 times each, after ...