It's the third time that people have been caned for homosexuality since Shariah law was implemented in Aceh in 2015 A team of five enforcers wearing robes and hoods took turns whipping the pair In ...

Three people were killed Tuesday when a 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia's Sumatra island, officials said. The quake struck deep underground shortly after midnight around 400 kilometres (250 ...

The Aceh Truth and Reconciliation Commission (KKR) has recommended 2,680 victims of past human rights violations to the Aceh ...

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Ten years ago on Friday, one of the deadliest natural disasters in history hit several Indian Ocean nations, killing as many as 230,000 people and causing untold damage. It was the Boxing Day tsunami, ...

The exhibition at Selegie Arts Centre also reunited past ST photographers with the current team. Read more at ...

A few minutes after the catastrophic Indian Ocean earthquake of Dec. 26, 2004, two massive explosions tore through Lampuuk, a small seaside village in the Indonesian province of Aceh. “I thought they ...

"Your jeans are too tight. And you should be wearing a longer blouse." It sounded like something my mother would say when I was a teenager, telling me how I should or shouldn't dress. But those were ...

As the news of the deadly 2004 tsunami in Indonesia’s Aceh province started to trickle in, Straits Times photographer Aziz ...