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. A religious police and court ...

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. A religious police and court ...

Banda Aceh (Indonesia) (AFP) – Two men were publicly flogged in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on Thursday after they were found guilty of sexual relations by a court operating under ...

Indonesia's Aceh Province Publicly Canes Two Men for Same-Sex Relationship BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) -Two young Indonesian men convicted of having a same-sex relationship were publicly caned ...

BANDA ACEH, (Indonesia): Four men were flogged in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on Thursday (Jan 30) for engaging in online gambling, local officials said, the first public lashing of the ...

Six years after the Boxing Day Tsunami—or the Asian Tsunami as the disaster came to be called—I was transferred to Indonesia. During my stint, I visited Aceh many times, feeling an affinity ...

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. A religious police and court ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) -Two young Indonesian men convicted of having a same-sex relationship were publicly caned on Thursday in Aceh province, prompting calls by Amnesty International for ...