Twenty years ago, one of the most powerful natural disasters in recorded history changed this landscape forever. Today, from ...

Thousands gathered at Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh on Aug. 15, 2026, to commemorate 21 years of peace between Indonesia and the separatist Free Aceh Movement, or GAM. Some participants ...

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, ...

"Please give me some, I'm hungry," shouts one man in a small crowd gathered around soldiers throwing instant noodle packets from an army truck outside Banda Aceh's Baiturrahman mosque.With dwindling ...

The Iskandar Muda Military Regional Command unrolled an 81-meter national flag during a parade in Banda Aceh on Sunday to ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia's Aceh Regional Police personnel briefly detained several residents following the 21st Aceh Peace Day commemoration, which resulted in a clash with the security forces in ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A riot erupted during the commemoration of the 21st Aceh Peace Day at the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque (MRB) in Banda Aceh City on Saturday, August 15, 2026, at around 11:00 a.m.

At first glance the oddity of a lone palm tree on the shoreline, or a piece of graffiti with the words "hantu laut", meaning ghosts of the sea – also the words spray-painted on the military trucks ...

Pity the poor tourism officials of Aceh. Their job — promoting the beaches, jungles and rich culture of an unspoiled and underexplored Indonesian province — should be easy. But just as Aceh recovered ...

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 ...