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, ...

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

Some of the world’s biggest consumer brands are banding together to tackle deforestation in one of Earth’s richest ...

Monday’s verdict was the fifth time that Aceh has sentenced people to public caning for homosexuality since the Islamic law was implemented in 2015 as a concession made by the government to end a long ...

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

Indonesia's Aceh is set to launch a new direct ferry link from Krueng Geukueh Port in Muara Satu to Penang, Malaysia - a move ...

On August 24, 2025, a magnitude 3.2 earthquake struck Sinabang, Aceh, capturing the attention of local residents and authorities alike. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the earthquake ...

Aceh’s multi-billion-dollar special autonomy fund from Indonesia’s central government is set to expire in 2027. The fund was ...

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

Dozens of people witnessed the caning at Banda Aceh's Tamansari city park. It's the third time that Aceh, the only province in Indonesia to practice Shariah law, has caned people for homosexuality ...

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