More than 200 Rohingya came ashore over the weekend in Indonesia's Aceh province, officials said on Monday (January 6), amid growing numbers of arrivals to the country by sea of the stateless ...

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

Some Acehnese say their patience have been tested, claiming the Rohingya consume scarce resources and occasionally come into conflict with residents.

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

For more information on the human rights situation in Aceh since the resumption of the fighting in May 2003, please see the Aceh under Martial Law series of reports and briefing papers produced by ...

Aceh is also the only Indonesian province that ... bloody conflict. "It was likely the war would have continued," said Muharram. "But we believe that the tsunami was arranged by the Almighty.