On 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake struck 240km west of Sumatra, Indonesia, rupturing the greatest ...

Former rebel commander Muharram Idris once led 3,000 men to fight Indonesia's army in separatist Aceh, but now serves as a ...

Twenty years after the devastating tsunami that hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the province of Aceh has returned to ...

Exactly 20 years ago, a magnitude-9.1 earthquake occurred on Dec. 26 off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The resulting ...

The waves that shattered thousands and thousands of Indonesian families also led to peace in a province that had been racked ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia-Traumatised by the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit Indonesia 20 years ago, Mr Teuku Hafid Hududillah has spent his adult life making sure that if disaster strikes again ...

Defying Aceh’s male-dominated coffee culture, she runs a café that serves as a welcoming space for everyone, especially women, by employing and empowering them in the region worst hit by the ...

Indonesia's Aceh province bore the brunt of the tsunami, as a powerful 9-magnitude earthquake rocked the west coast of Sumatra and brought along giant waves that wiped out entire villages in minutes.

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia: Aceh resident Nahrawi Noerdin was among the lucky ones to survive the devastating Indian ocean tsunami 20 years ago. The former small business operator was out at sea that ...

but Aceh was granted the right to practise Sharia law as part of a peace deal with the Indonesian government in 2006 to end a decades-long separatist war. At the time, Acehnese political leaders ...