Sentences include a maximum penalty of eight years’ imprisonment and 100 lashes.  Last year, on 7 November, a couple who ...

In a shocking ruling, an Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Monday, sentenced two men to 85 public caning ...

An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province has sentenced two men to public caning for having gay sex ...

Two men talk with their lawyer inside a courtroom as they are being judged for having gay sex, at a Sharia court in Banda ...

Bank Indonesia's Executive Director of Communication Department, Ramdan Denny Prakoso. (ANTARA/ Sella Panduarsa Gareta). Banda Aceh, Aceh (ANTARA) - Bank Indonesia (BI) and the People's Bank of China ...

A French national held on death row in Indonesia since 2007 for drug offences is returning to France on Tuesday as part of an agreement made between both countries. Serge Atlaoui, 61, was accused ...

China came out in support of U.S. President Donald Trump's bid to strike a deal with Russia to end the war in Ukraine, at a G20 meeting in South Africa on Thursday, while U.S. allies rallied ...

BANDA ACEH, Jan 30 — Four men were flogged in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Thursday for engaging in online gambling, local officials said, the first public lashing of the year under the ...

Aceh, on the northern tip of Sumatra island, is the only province in the Muslim-majority nation where offenses such as gambling, adultery, and alcohol consumption are punishable by public caning. In ...

A wooden boat carrying over 100 Rohingya muslims, mostly women and children, landed in Indonesia's Aceh province after its engine broke down. The refugees, fleeing persecution in Myanmar ...

t least 75 Rohingya refugees arrived by boat at a tourist beach in Aceh on Wednesday, but were stopped by authorities from disembarking, local officials said. The mostly Muslim Rohingya are ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A rickety wooden boat carrying more than 100 Rohingya Muslims landed Wednesday in Indonesia as the ...