Heavy rain triggered landslides and floods across Aceh, damaging homes, disrupting roads and affecting 11 villages, authorities said.
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, ...
An embankment collapse in Aceh Tamiang flooded homes and hundreds of hectares of farmland as heavy rain forced residents to ...
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21 years after disaster helped bring peace to Aceh – has botched Indonesian response to floods reignited calls for independence?
Thousands gathered at Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh on Aug. 15, 2026, to commemorate 21 years of peace between Indonesia and the separatist Free Aceh Movement, or GAM. Some participants ...
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Indonesia’s Aceh province is notorious for two seemingly opposite reasons—one, it’s the only place that enforces Sharia law in the entire country and two, it’s also the home of some of the best weed ...
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Today marks 13 years since the government of Indonesia and the armed pro-independence movement, the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), signed a peace agreement in Helsinki. The peace deal ended 29 years of ...
Pity the poor tourism officials of Aceh. Their job — promoting the beaches, jungles and rich culture of an unspoiled and underexplored Indonesian province — should be easy. But just as Aceh recovered ...
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