The Aceh Sultanate largely ruled along the coast and left the interior highlanders, divided into tribes and clans, free to practice their traditional code of behaviour, ...

The second part of the Adat Aceh deals with the history of the sultanate. A listing of 37 rulers of Aceh is given on four pages (ff. 28r-29v), followed on ff. 31r-47v by a chronological account ...

A similar tsunami appears to have wiped out coastal villages in Aceh more than 600 years ago, and the resulting devastation may have played a role in the rise of the powerful Aceh Sultanate ...

The war in Aceh, one of the world’s longest-running conflicts, has its roots in the occupation of the independent Aceh sultanate by Dutch colonialists in 1870. Source: News Agencies.

The people of Aceh see the era of the sultanate before Indonesian rule as a utopia. Not even centuries of Dutch colonialism are thought to have compromised Aceh’s independence. “Feminists are trying ...

Aceh was an independent sultanate until the twentieth century, having fought off repeated Dutch attempts to colonize it along with the rest of Indonesia. The Dutch finally won control of the ...

On August 15, the exiled leaders of the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) signed a pact with the Indonesian government in the Finnish capital Helsinki to end their 29-year struggle for independence.

Part of Aceh’s struggle has always been to rule its territory in accordance with its long-held religious values. For centuries, it was a powerful Islamic sultanate that held sway over much of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Aceh rebels have agreed to drop a demand for independence for the separatist province at peace talks with the Indonesian government ...