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Wali Nanggroe Aceh Malik Mahmud Al Haythar says if the govt doesn't return four islands to Aceh, there could be conflict between Aceh & North Sumatra.
Iskandar Ismail, a businessman from Aceh, is behind Indonesia Airlines. Here is the journey of his business.
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Two men in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were publicly caned Thursday after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them for having sex with each other. Dozens ...
Indonesia’s secular central government granted Aceh the right to implement Islamic Shariah law in 2006 as part of a peace deal to end a decades-long separatist war.
But it was Aceh, Indonesia – a province already blighted by decades of civil war – that was hardest hit, particularly the capital Banda Aceh, where waves of up to 20-30m swept through the city ...
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 ...
The enactment of the Aceh Language Qanun raises an important question: Does language play a role in building peace in post-conflict areas?
In Aceh, a bloody battle between separatists and the Indonesian government raged for nearly 30 years. How did a vice president, a Finnish businessman and an Australian academic help to end the war?