A month after the disaster, residents are still struggling to recover as anger against Jakarta’s slow rescue response mounts.

The floods meet all the criteria to be considered a catastrophe: millions of people affected, significant damage to property ...

Residents have put up white flags in front of homes in villages, along national highways and at emergency posts and ...

Aceh has asked UNDP and Unicef to help with disaster recovery, even as Indonesia has yet to open the door to foreign aid.

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 ...

Students in Indonesia’s Aceh province rallied on Wednesday demanding the government drive away Rohingya refugees arriving by boat in growing numbers as police named more suspects of human trafficking.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia-owned electricity company PT PLN Unit Induk Distribusi (PLN UID) Aceh revealed 13 cases of ...

Banda Aceh, Indonesia — Two men in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province were among a group of people publicly caned on Tuesday after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them of violating Islamic law ...

It is late afternoon; the light is softening and young people have gathered at the harbour in Banda Aceh to play music, buy an ice cream and just hang out. Suddenly the tranquillity of the scene 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 ...