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, ...

BANDA ACEH – One thing people invariably recall about the Indian Ocean tsunami is the terrifying sound the tidal wave made as it surged towards shore. Rahmadullah, 31, remembered “a sound like a ...

Thousands gathered at Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh on Aug. 15, 2026, to commemorate 21 years of peace between Indonesia and the separatist Free Aceh Movement, or GAM. Some participants ...

Pity the poor tourism officials of Aceh. Their job — promoting the beaches, jungles and rich culture of an unspoiled and underexplored Indonesian province — should be easy. But just as Aceh recovered ...

There’s sadly nothing unique about Salmi Hardiyanti’s story in her home of Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Ten years ago she lost her mother, two younger sisters, her grandparents and several others in her ...

At first glance the oddity of a lone palm tree on the shoreline, or a piece of graffiti with the words "hantu laut", meaning ghosts of the sea – also the words spray-painted on the military trucks ...

It is Saturday night, and the streets of Banda Aceh are packed. Cars and motorcycles jostle for space on the roads, while "Bentor" taxis - motorcycles attached to wheelbarrows - scout for passengers.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A number of vehicles lined up at the entrance of a gas station on Teuku Umar Street, Baiturrahman, in the city of Banda Aceh, Aceh Province, Indonesia, on Monday afternoon, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Clambering over a decommissioned, rusting 3,500-tonne floating power station would not usually be high on my holiday ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (ILO News) – The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Banda Aceh City Government officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding today (23/04) at the Banda Aceh ...