TWO lovers have been lashed 100 times each in punishment for violating barbaric Sharia laws. Shocking photos show one woman ...

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 ...

A couple was flogged 100 times each for adultery under an Indonesian province's strict Sharia laws.  The caning in Banda Aceh ...

FOUR people have been brutally punished for sex outside marriage by being lashed 100 times with a cane under strict Sharia ...

MEDAN: Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain have swept through several areas of Aceh province since the weekend ...

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, ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A riot erupted during the commemoration of the 21st Aceh Peace Day at the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque (MRB) in Banda Aceh City on Saturday, August 15, 2026, at around 11:00 a.m.

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 ...

Abroad, India’s RSS Speaks of ‘Love.’ At Home, Its Affiliates Attack Christians. Today marks 13 years since the government of Indonesia and the armed pro-independence movement, the Free Aceh Movement ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the collapse of peace talks on May 19, 2003, Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri signed Presidential Decree 28, authorizing Indonesia's security forces to launch full-scale military ...