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To walk around the city of Banda Aceh, capital of Aceh province, he said, it is evident that this is the case. There are now evacuation points and escape routes in densely populated areas.
A U.S. helicopter on a relief mission crashed in a rice paddy 500 yards from the Banda Aceh airport Monday, injuring two of ten servicemen aboard. As the tsunami relief effort entered its third ...
Fifteen people, including five women, were punished with public caning Friday for violating Sharia law in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province. Two men accused of being gay received 87 lashes ...
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 ...
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.
Banda Aceh, Indonesia — Two men in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province were publicly caned 77 times each on Thursday after neighbors reported them to Islamic religious police for having sex.
The Culture and Tourism Office of Aceh province has said that it will optimize international flights from Banda Aceh to ...
Banda Aceh, the bustling capital, is unrecognisable from five years ago, when it was a grim, silent wasteland, its streets piled high with the debris of smashed buildings and washed by fetid ...
The Class I Immigration Office at the Banda Aceh Immigration Checkpoint (TPI) has deported a Malaysian citizen for violating ...
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Two young Indonesian men convicted of having a same-sex relationship were publicly caned on Thursday in Aceh province, ...
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia—Devastated a decade ago by the Indian Ocean tsunami, the Indonesian province of Aceh has turned in its recovery to religion and strict Shariah law.