More than 200 Rohingya came ashore over the weekend in Indonesia's Aceh province, officials said on Monday (January 6), amid ...

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

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

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

But the waves, possibly 30 metres high as they crashed into Banda Aceh, also led to peace after almost 30 years of war.

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.

Twenty years after the devastating tsunami that hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the province of Aceh has returned to peace after a civil war and is now living under Koranic law. Our ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, in Indonesia, thousands have gathered at the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh. Saifulbahri Ismail shares how the disaster became a catalyst for peace in once-restive Aceh province.

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 ...