A 5.2 magnitude quake shook South Aceh Friday evening with no tsunami threat. BMKG urges caution for possible aftershocks.

By bno - Jakarta Office In June 2025, Indonesia settled a long-running territorial dispute between two of its westernmost ...

Indonesia's North Sumatra and Aceh provinces have been embroiled in a dispute over the control of four islands, but a video circulating online does not show former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ...

In Aceh, the most orthodox corner of Muslim-majority Indonesia, gay sex is now punishable by 100 lashes. On a public stage. By a cane-wielding figure clad head-to-ankles in dark brown robes (with ...

Two other people were also sentenced to 34 and 8 strokes each for gambling. Indonesia’s secular central government granted Aceh the right to implement Islamic Shariah law in 2006 as part of a ...

Local children in Batee village, Aceh, Indonesia playing on a wooden fishing boat which was used to transport 233 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh. (Photo: CNA/Wisnu Agung Prasetyo) ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia—Devastated a decade ago by the Indian Ocean tsunami, the Indonesian province of Aceh has turned in its recovery to religion and strict Shariah law. Many Acehnese say the ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) -Two young Indonesian men convicted of having a same-sex relationship were publicly caned on Thursday in Aceh province, prompting calls by Amnesty International for ...