Indonesia's North Sumatra and Aceh provinces have been embroiled in a dispute over the control of four islands, but a video ...

The December 2004 tsunami that killed more than 200,000 and wiped-out thousands of communities on the shores of the Indian Ocean was especially devastating to the people of Aceh, Indonesia. A ...

Prayers in Banda Aceh yesterday for the victims of the tsunami that struck 10 years ago today and killed 170,000 people in the Indonesian city (Reuters) “After the earthquake, my son went to see ...

Almost six months after a tsunami smashed into Indonesia, the people of Aceh province remain frustrated by the disruption of their lives as they wait for promised reconstruction to begin.

2005-12-25 04:00:00 PDT Banda Aceh, Indonesia-- The morality enforcers, a squad of men clad in green trousers and white shirts and women in white head scarves, stride on to this provincial capital ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia—Devastated a decade ago by the Indian Ocean tsunami, the Indonesian province of Aceh has turned in its recovery to religion and strict Shariah law. Many Acehnese say the ...

The December 2004 Asian tsunami left nearly a quarter of a million people dead. Indonesia's Aceh province was among the hardest hit. But nine years on, the province is home to a largely successful ...

ACEH: Former rebel commander Muharram Idris once led 3,000 men to fight Indonesia’s army in separatist Aceh, but now serves as a local politician after the legacy of a devastating tsunami two ...

BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA — When a magnitude-9.0 undersea quake unleashed a tsunami in the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004, no place on land was closer than the Indonesian province of Aceh, on the ...

People are gathering in prayer and visiting mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami, one of modern history's worst natural disasters.

No sirens were heard in Aceh when a tsunami struck on Dec 26, 2004. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

THE IMPACT ON ACEH. Indonesia's Aceh province bore the brunt of the disaster, with the giant waves wiping out entire villages in minutes. The tsunami killed an estimated 130,000 people there.