Sharia law in Indonesia's Aceh province allows up to 100 public lashes for morality offenses including gay sex and sex ...

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By Rhett Ayers Butler Ani Dasgupta has spent a career trying to make cities fairer and the planet more livable, first as an architect in training, then as a World Bank hand in the churn of ...

The two men, aged 20 and 21, were sentenced at the Islamic Shariah District Court in August in Banda Aceh, the provincial capital.

Telkom Indonesia has launched a new data center in Banda Aceh on the southern end of the Island of Sumatra. One of the company's "neuCentrIX" data centers, the facility will serve government services ...

Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) looks after 5,000 orphans who were left an orphan due to tsunami disaster in 2004. BANDA ACEH (AA) - August 16, 2012 - Organization of Islamic Cooperation ...

The Pasifik Satelit Nusantara company’s Nusantara Lima telecommunications satellite went into a geosynchronous transfer orbit ...

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 ...

Rina Meutia survived the devastating tsunami 10 years ago in Indonesia's Banda Aceh. She talks with NPR's Eric Westervelt about the immediate aftermath and how the region has changed since then. This ...

More than a decade ago, one of the deadliest natural disasters in history killed 227,898 people in 14 countries around the Indian Ocean—nearly 170,000 of them in Indonesia. Photograph by Lianne Milton ...

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It's the third time that people have been caned for homosexuality since Shariah law was implemented in Aceh in 2015 A team of five enforcers wearing robes and hoods took turns whipping the pair In ...