In a 2-1 majority decision, the Federal Court today dismissed review applications by three prisoners seeking to set aside their whipping sentences, ruling that the punishment is constitutional. Chief ...

Woman and man accused of sex outside marriage and drinking alcohol faced what is likely to be one of the severest punishments since Aceh province adopted sharia law Sharia police have caned a couple ...

Banda Aceh, Indonesia — Sharia police caned a couple 140 times each in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday for having sex outside marriage and drinking alcohol, likely one of the severest such ...

JAKARTA - At least 22 villages in Aceh were wiped out and dozens more remain isolated following the devastating impact of Cyclone Senyar, which struck northern parts of Sumatra in late November, ...

Protests have erupted in Aceh Province on the northern tip of Sumatra island, where anger and frustration are mounting over what many see as inadequate relief efforts by a distracted government. A ...

As Hamdaniyah Surbakti, a 62-year-old resident of Aceh province, began to pick up the pieces of her house that was destroyed by last month’s severe floods, she inevitably thought about the 2004 ...

Aceh has a history of separatist conflict dating back to the 1970s when the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) waged an insurgency against the Indonesian state that claimed thousands of lives and left the ...

MEDAN – Aceh residents are urging the government to allow the entry of 500 tonnes of humanitarian aid from Malaysia, as survivors continue to struggle nearly three weeks after devastating floods hit ...

ACEH: Residents of Indonesia’s Aceh province have put up white flags to signal they can no longer cope with conditions three weeks after Cyclone Senyar battered three provinces in Sumatra. More than 1 ...

In the wake of a deadly flood, Indonesians are grappling with worsening diseases and a lack of medical care. Some 31 hospitals and 156 smaller health centres across the three provinces were impacted ...

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A number of vehicles lined up at the entrance of a gas station on Teuku Umar Street, Baiturrahman, in the city of Banda Aceh, Aceh Province, Indonesia, on Monday afternoon, ...