Acehnese women have contributed to post-conflict and tsunami development. However, existing policies have not covered what they need, and even tend to discriminate against them.

Last month, 11 Acehnese villagers reached a confidential financial settlement with the U.S. oil giant, after accusing it of abuses including rape and torture.

Writing in New Mandala on December 4, Nino Viartasiwi and Antje Missbach noted a number of possible reasons for the apparently sudden negative turn of Acehnese against the Rohingya.

Mr. Suheri, 29, of Woodside, is one of about 20 Acehnese living in the city. The news his parents had for him was bittersweet. In this smallest of New York communities, no one has been spared a loss.

Acehnese women sidelined from decision-making, despite past tragedy and conflict. Aceh still has a long road ahead in embracing women as contributing members of society at all levels, ...

Americans in 1776 had far fewer reasons for separation than the Acehnese have today; Americans were far less united in their desire than the Acehnese too. You look at Sweden and Norway, and it's hard ...

UNHCR is extremely concerned after learning that Malaysian authorities this morning deported seven asylum seekers who originated from the Indonesian province of Aceh, despite a request from the High ...

Explaining Acehnese exceptionalism. First, the most common explanation is Islamic solidarity.. In Aceh, 98% of people identify as Muslim. Being Acehnese is virtually synonymous with being Muslim.

UNHCR is deeply concerned by continued arrests by Malaysian police of Indonesian Acehnese asylum seekers outside our office in Kuala Lumpur, which effectively prevents them from exercising their right ...

More than 200 ethnic Rohingya came ashore in Indonesia's Aceh province late on Tuesday, taking total arrivals of members of the Myanmar Muslim minority to more than 1,000 for the week, a leader of ...

However, the Acehnese—who historically traded with fellow Muslims from India, ... Pieter Feith, the Dutch diplomat heading the 220-member Aceh Monitoring Mission, ...

Acehnese have been singled out in the past for deportation from Malaysia. On March 26, 1998, Malaysia deported 545 Acehnese from Malaysia on an Indonesian warship.