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, ...

"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 ...

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 ...

PEREULAK, Indonesia (AP) — A rickety wooden boat carrying more than 100 Rohingya Muslims landed Wednesday in Indonesia as the northernmost province of Aceh continued to receive the refugees fleeing ...

Indonesia’s Aceh province is taking a prominent role in assisting hundreds of Asia boat people who have settled in temporary refugee camps after a perilous journey by sea. Humanitarian and relief ...

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 ...

MEULABOH, Indonesia — It is a little past noon on Friday, time for Anshari and his troops to spring into action. Their first stop is outside the gates of Meulaboh’s central mosque, where fruit and ...

Almost 1,000 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar have arrived by boat in Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh in the last six days, officials said Monday. They included five groups with women and ...

Indonesian war planes attacked a rebel base and troops parachuted into restive Aceh province Monday, as the military launched a major offensive just hours after peace talks broke down and the ...