Continuous heavy rain, strong winds and rough seas are expected over northern Peninsular states due to a tropical storm.The ...

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 ...

We rode our motorbikes — my 17-year-old translator Mohammed and I — as far as we could down a rutted, muddy path to the village of Darussalam. We could see a fire a little way ahead and stopped at a ...

Banda Aceh leads Indonesia with the cleanest air (score 11) as of Nov 10, 2025, 4 PM WIB. Madiun and Kutai Barat follow. KLHK classifies air quality from good (0-50) to hazardous (300+), with all top ...

Authorities in Aceh have removed 18.5 hectares of illegal oil palm planted inside a protected forest in Babahrot Subdistrict, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As Western donors prepare to pull out of Aceh, nearly eight years after the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami ...

Indonesian war planes attacked a rebel base and troops parachuted into restive Aceh province Monday, as the military launched a major offensive just hours after peace talks broke down and the ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia – Ten years after a tsunami hit this city Dec. 26, 2004, killing 167,000 people, roads and bridges have been rebuilt, there are houses on the beach, trees have grown back, and ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Sixteen deaf people in Banda Aceh join a barista training at Banda Aceh vocational training center (BLK) for 28 days, starting on January 11 until February 18. Manpower Minister ...

The devastating tsunami of December 2004 left Banda Aceh a wasteland, a hellish landscape of debris. Tens of thousands of people lost their lives. But fast-forward nine years and the city is ...

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 ...