Indonesia’s largest environmental group, Walhi, has filed a formal complaint with the Attorney General’s Office, accusing 47 ...

The Indonesian Youth and Sports Ministry (Kemenpora) and the Seoul National University (SNU) from South Korea are ...

At least 52 inmates escaped from an overcrowded prison in the westernmost Aceh province of Indonesia after breaking through ...

The Central Sumatra Highway near the border area between Dharmasraya Regency, West Sumatra Province and Muaro Bungo Jambi, ...

Explaining the decision, he stated that the hilal (crescent moon) was sighted above the threshold by two sworn observers in Aceh. This year, the ministry deployed observers to 125 observation points ...

Indonesia's Aceh Province Publicly Canes Two Men for Same-Sex Relationship BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) -Two young Indonesian men convicted of having a same-sex relationship were publicly caned ...

People in Indonesia’s deeply conservative Aceh province slaughter animals during Meugang festivities ... welcome the fasting month with a symbolic spiritual cleansing. Across Sumatra island, after ...

(AP Photo/ Ahmad Ibrahim, File) Muslims perform an Eid al-Fitr prayer marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan on Ampera Bridge in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia, Saturday, April 22, ...

As highlighted by the Human Dignity Trust, same-sexual activity is criminalised in two provinces of Indonesia: Aceh and South Sumatra. Sentences include a maximum penalty of eight years’ imprisonment ...

These include Ahmad Luthfi in Central Java, Dedi Mulyadi in West Java, Khofifah Indar Parawansa in East Java and Jokowi’s son-in-law Bobby Nasution in North Sumatra. The inauguration ceremony on ...

Aerial view of illegal oil palm plantation inside the Rawa Singkil wildlife reserve in Aceh, Indonesia. Image courtesy of HAKA. The flip side of authorities’ tendency to crack down on powerless ...