More than 180 Rohingya Muslims landed in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Monday, officials said, the latest among hundreds who have fled by boat from desperate conditions in Myanmar and in camps in ...

Two other people were also sentenced to 34 and 8 strokes each for gambling. Indonesia’s secular central government granted Aceh the right to implement Islamic Shariah law in 2006 as part of a ...

Item 1 of 5 Rohingya refugees walk after their arrival at the beach in Gampong Baro village, Aceh Besar, Aceh province, Indonesia, January 8, 2023, in this photo taken by Antara Foto.

Aceh is the only province in Muslim-majority Indonesia that practices Shariah law, a concession made by the central government in 2001 as part of efforts to end a decades-long war for independence.

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Two young Indonesian men convicted of having a same-sex relationship were publicly caned on Thursday in Aceh province, prompting calls by Amnesty ...

Lawmakers in Indonesia's Aceh Province recently passed a law that imposes death by stoning on Muslim adulterers. Aceh was granted the right to implement Sharia law under a peace agreement with the ...

Nowhere was the devastation from the 2004 Indian Ocean disaster worse than in Aceh. In its recovery, the Indonesian province has turned to religion and strict Shariah law.

Fifteen people, including five women, were punished with public caning Friday for violating Sharia law in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province. Two men accused of being gay received 87 lashes ...

Next comes East Aceh regency, with 60,592 hectares, or 9 percent of its area, and Aceh Singkil regency, with 55,441 hectares, or 25 percent of its area. Oil palm fruit in Aceh Singkil.

A few minutes after the catastrophic Indian Ocean earthquake of Dec. 26, 2004, two massive explosions tore through Lampuuk, a small seaside village in the Indonesian province of Aceh. “I thought ...

Dozens of people witnessed the caning at Banda Aceh's Tamansari city park. It's the third time that Aceh, the only province in Indonesia to practice Shariah law, has caned people for homosexuality ...