Dozens of people witnessed the caning at a public hall in Banda Aceh. It’s the fourth time that Aceh, the only province in ...

Two young Indonesian men convicted of having a same-sex relationship were publicly caned on Thursday in Aceh province, ...

Each year since then, more than 100 people have been publicly caned. Aceh implemented an expansion of Islamic bylaws and criminal code in 2015 that extended Shariah law to the province’s non ...

Four men who were caught gambling online have been publicly flogged with canes in a brutal punishment enforced in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province. In front of dozens of people at a public ...

a small wooden boat carrying “more than 100” people, most of them women and children, ran aground in Pereulak region in East Aceh on Wednesday. The landing came after the boat’s engine broke ...

In the past year alone, more than 600 Rohingya refugees have landed in East Aceh. Earlier this month, more than 260 people – mostly women and children – landed in Pereulak in two boats.

A magnitude 6.2 quake hit off the coast of Indonesia's Aceh province on Friday, the country's geophysics agency said on social media platform X.