Ten years ago on Friday, one of the deadliest natural disasters in history hit several Indian Ocean nations, killing as many as 230,000 people and causing untold damage. It was the Boxing Day tsunami, ...

Fishermen at work on a beach outside Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on Nov. 17, 2014 A few minutes after the catastrophic Indian Ocean earthquake of Dec. 26, 2004, two massive explosions tore through Lampuuk, ...

Earlier, President Prabowo said post-disaster recovery in Aceh Tamiang is nearly complete, with all residents moved from ...

Today marks 13 years since the government of Indonesia and the armed pro-independence movement, the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), signed a peace agreement in Helsinki. The peace deal ended 29 years of ...

MEULABOH, Indonesia — It is a little past noon on Friday, time for Anshari and his troops to spring into action. Their first stop is outside the gates of Meulaboh’s central mosque, where fruit and ...

Prabowo marks Eid in Aceh, visiting housing for flood survivors as Indonesia continues post-disaster reconstruction.

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LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia: For two weeks, Mr Mohammad Ershad, his wife and two sons were crammed inside the hull of a wooden fishing boat with 218 others. To avoid detection by the authorities, the ...

"Your jeans are too tight. And you should be wearing a longer blouse." It sounded like something my mother would say when I was a teenager, telling me how I should or shouldn't dress. But those were ...

President Prabowo Subianto announced yesterday that the small atolls will pass from North Sumatra to Aceh, putting an end to a long-standing dispute. The issue concerns rich gas deposits discovered ...