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It’s the people of Aceh, those community leaders who fought while betting on their freedoms, who we are indebted to.
The 2005 Helsinki agreement, which ended almost three decades of armed conflict between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the ...
Five of the 18 Acehnese fishermen arrested by Thai authorities on charges of illegal fishing are scheduled to be released on ...
Aceh continues to rank among Indonesia’s poorest provinces, despite its vast natural resources and a multi-billion-dollar ...
JAKARTA: "If you run, you are shot. If you don't, you are beaten," a 20-year-old Acehnese man said about life in the region, ...
Thailand will free five of 18 Acehnese fishermen detained for illegal fishing, amid recurring cross-border arrests in the region.
The evidence seized consists of 4,000 Happy Five pills, packaged in 40 bundles inside a bag. Happy five is a hard drug known ...
An Islamic court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province has sentenced two men to public caning, 80 times each, for what ...
Indonesia’s Aceh province enjoys special autonomy following the 2005 peace deal between the Free Aceh Movement, or GAM, and ...
The Aceh government has honoured dozens of journalists, including three from Indonesia's national news agency ANTARA, for ...
Monday’s verdict was the fifth time that Aceh has sentenced people to public caning for homosexuality since the Islamic law ...