The evidence seized consists of 4,000 Happy Five pills, packaged in 40 bundles inside a bag. Happy five is a hard drug known ...

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, ...

An Islamic court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province has sentenced two men to public caning, 80 times each, for what ...

Thailand will free five of 18 Acehnese fishermen detained for illegal fishing, amid recurring cross-border arrests in the region.

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’s multi-billion-dollar special autonomy fund from Indonesia’s central government is set to expire in 2027. The fund was ...

The Aceh Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) revealed that this number includes baby and juvenile elephants.

A sharia court in Indonesia has sentenced to men to public caning 80 times each after they were caught kissing. Their trial ...

Monday’s verdict was the fifth time that Aceh has sentenced people to public caning for homosexuality since the Islamic law ...

Building peace is one thing, but keeping it is another thing altogether, as a boundary dispute over four small islands off ...