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Jakarta Post
April 23, 2018
Several Acehnese politicians have also taken up the issue. This sudden controversy over the bond certificates seems a mere symptom of continuing deep-rooted bad feelings against the central government. The situation in Aceh today could probably be described as a mini Charles Dickens setting: “It wasÃâà...
ABC Online
April 23, 2018
On April 12, Aceh's governor Irwandi Yusuf signed a new rule to ban the whipping of criminals in public. Under the new rules, it is forbidden to record people being caned with a rattan stick — crowds often film the spectacle on smartphones — and only journalists and adults can witness the punishmentÃâà...
The Guardian
April 23, 2018
Humiliated but compliant, the couple sat on the edge of a well in Kayee Lee, a village in the Indonesian province of Aceh, as the liquid ran off them in thick black streams. By the time Roswati arrived at the scene, about 70 people had gathered to watch her son and his girlfriend being publicly shamed in theÃâà...
The Japan News
April 22, 2018
AFPBANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AFP-Jiji) — A group of amorous couples and accused sex workers were publicly whipped for breaking Islamic law in Indonesia's Aceh on Friday, just a week after the province pledged to move the widely condemned practice indoors. More than a thousand people, includingÃâà...
The Sun Daily
April 21, 2018
BANGKOK:The Royal Thai Navy (RTN) has not discounted the possibility that a boat ferrying a group of Rohingya which landed in Aceh today, was the same vessel sighted near the Phang Nga waters in southern Thailand, two days ago. Since its detection near the Phang Nga waters, the wooden boat withÃâà...
The Australian
April 14, 2018
Aceh's Governor Irwandi Yusuf signed an agreement on Thursday with federal Law Minister Yasonna Laoly to implement the regulation, which also bans children from watching cannings and any filming of the punishment. “The aim of holding the caning inside prison is to prevent it from being watched byÃâà...
ANTARA
April 14, 2018
Banda Aceh, (ANTARA News) - Mata Ie Geophysics Station in Aceh Besar District has installed seven sensors that are directly connected to the satellite, spokesman ... Situated on the Great Sumatran Fault or the Semangko Fault, Aceh becomes one of the provinces with high seismic activities in the country.
Herald-Whig
April 14, 2018
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's conservative Aceh province will no longer allow canings for violations of Shariah law to be carried out in public, its governor said Thursday, apparently in response to international condemnation of the caning last year of two men for gay sex that damagedÃâà...
Ballarat Courier
April 13, 2018
Indonesia's conservative Aceh province will no longer allow canings for violations of Shariah law to be carried out in public, apparently in response to international ... Human Rights Watch dismissed the change to indoor whipping as cosmetic and called for Aceh to abolish caning and the laws that allow it.
Indonesia Expat
April 13, 2018
The conservative Indonesian province of Aceh will no longer conduct the Shariah punishment of caning in public, its governor said Thursday. The displays had become public spectacles, attended by hundreds of onlookers cheering and filming the proceedings. The decision is reportedly in response toÃâà...
The Straits Times
April 12, 2018
BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA (AFP) - Indonesia's Aceh province will stop whipping criminals in public after a wave of international condemnation of the practice, local officials said on Thursday (April 12). The conservative region on Sumatra island - the only place in Muslim-majority Indonesia that followsÃâà...
ABC News
April 12, 2018
Indonesia's conservative Aceh province will no longer allow canings for violations of Shariah law to be carried out in public, its governor said Thursday, apparently in response to international condemnation of the caning last year of two men for gay sex that damaged Indonesia's moderate image.
Jakarta Post
April 6, 2018
Stranded Rohingya rescued by Aceh fishermen This picture taken on April 5, 2018 shows a small boat (front) on which five Rohingya Muslims were rescued by Indonesian fishermen after they were stranded at sea for almost almost three weeks, in Banda Aceh. (Agence France -Presse/Ilyas Ismail)Ãâà...
The Australian
April 3, 2018
Secular Indonesia is predominantly Muslim but ultra-conservative Aceh is the only province to follow sharia, or Islamic law, and criminalise gay sex. Indonesia's parliament is currently debating revisions to the national criminal code that could criminalise all sex outside marriage, including same-sex relationsÃâà...
Tempo.co
March 31, 2018
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) of Aceh Province has shot to death a man suspected to be a drug dealer on Thursday night. Two other suspects were arrested. Aceh Province BNN staff Amanto said that the suspect, M (33), is from Medan, North Sumatra. “We had to take firmÃâà...
ABC Online
March 23, 2018
Transgender women in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province are losing their jobs and incomes in the wake of police raids that saw several beauty salons shut down. Several salons in northern Aceh remain closed more than a month after the raids, and some trans women who worked there have fled toÃâà...
ABC Online
March 17, 2018
"Your jeans are too tight. And you should be wearing a longer blouse." It sounded like something my mother would say when I was a teenager, telling me how I should or shouldn't dress. But those were the words of a police officer in Aceh, Indonesia's most conservative province. Aceh is the only provinceÃâà...
The Straits Times
March 15, 2018
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The central government has warned the Aceh administration against introducing beheading as a punishment for murder under its sharia law system, saying the province did not have the legal authority to do so. The administration's plan toÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 15, 2018
Amnesty International has condemned a plan by authorities in Indonesia's Aceh province to introduce beheading as a punishment for murder. In a statement on Thursday, Amnesty called on the local government to drop the plan to implement the form of execution. "The Aceh administration cannot use itsÃâà...
ABC Online
March 15, 2018
"The Aceh administration cannot use its special autonomous status in order to introduce laws and policies that flagrantly violate human rights." The Sharia Government in Aceh revealed it was considering the introduction of beheading, in order to reduce the number of murders in Aceh. The Government saidÃâà...
The Guardian
March 14, 2018
The conservative Indonesian province of Aceh, which already carries out public caning of gay people, adulterers and gamblers, is considering the introduction of beheading as a punishment for murder, a top Islamic law official has said. Syukri M Yusuf, the head of Aceh's shariah law and human rights officeÃâà...
Jakarta Post
March 14, 2018
Man, transgender person nabbed in Aceh for allegedly having sex A convicted man is caned for violating Qanun Jinayat at the Rukoh Mosque in the Syiah Kuala subdistrict of Banda Aceh regency on March 1. (Antara/Irwansyah Putra)Ãâà...
Netralnews
March 11, 2018
JAKARTA, NNC - A total of 36 villages in Juli Sub-district and 21 villages in Peusangan Siblah Krueng Sub-district, Bireuen Regency of Aceh Province have received Village Funds and Village Fund Allocation. Although the Village Funds have been prepared for all regencies in Aceh, hundreds of otherÃâà...
Jakarta Post
March 9, 2018
PREMIUM Discussion of the implementation of sharia in Aceh has always been related to alleged human rights abuses. Many people, especially activists, think that by criticizing sharia they can stop or change public policies in Aceh. Yet sharia in the province will remain resistant to insiders' or outsiders'Ãâà...
Tempo.co
March 8, 2018
Heru said the joint team of BNN, National Police, and Malaysian Police (PDRM) managed to confiscate 15.05 kilograms of crystal meth and 70,000 of ecstasy pills in the first case on February 25. The drugs were seized from the Malaysian-Aceh-Medan narcotics syndicate. “It was smuggled through Penang.
Jakarta Post
March 8, 2018
Aceh couple doused with sewer water over alleged 'immoral acts' A man who was found guilty of violating one of Aceh's Islamic bylaws is caned at the Rukoh Mosque in Syiah Kuala subdistrict, Banda Aceh regency, on March 1. (Antara/Irwansyah Putra)Ãâà...
Jakarta Post
March 4, 2018
Q&A: What you need to know about sharia in Aceh Under the blue sky: The Baiturrahman Grand Mosque stands tall in Banda Aceh, Aceh province. (JP/ PJ Leo)Ãâà...
Newsweek
February 28, 2018
Two Christians have been publicly flogged in Indonesia for playing arcade games that authorities said violated Islamic law. Dahlan Silitonga, 61, and Tjia Nyuk Hwa, 45, were flogged six and seven times respectively in front of hundreds of spectators in Aceh province on February 27, The Guardian reported.
Jakarta Post
February 27, 2018
Christian couple caned in Banda Aceh for gambling Public domain: A man is caned in public for engaging in same-sex relations in Banda Aceh. Two men received 85 lashes each on Tuesday after the Banda Aceh Sharia Court found them guilty of sodomy. (JP/Hotli Simanjuntak)Ãâà...
Jakarta Post
February 24, 2018
Aceh, in collaboration with a company from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, will soon start a strategic hydrocarbon exploration survey in the highly prospective offshore basin off the province, which is rich in oil and gas. The exploration work will begin following a memorandum of understanding withÃâà...
Jakarta Post
February 21, 2018
Aceh peace process: Revisiting 'white Helsinki' Helsinki Cathedral, also known as the St. Nicholas Cathedral, is a distinctive landmark of the Finland's capital. The historic Helsinki Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the government of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) was signedÃâà...
Amnesty International
February 14, 2018
Indonesian authorities are completely failing to protect the transgender women who were appallingly ill-treated and humiliated by police in North Aceh on January 27, some of whom have since had to go into hiding due to fears for their safety, Amnesty International Indonesia said today. AmnestyÃâà...
Jakarta Post
December 31, 1999
PREMIUM A group of amorous couples and sex workers were publicly caned for breaking Islamic law in Aceh on Friday, just a week after the province pledged to move the widely condemned practice indoors. More than 1,000 people, including dozens of tourists from neighboring Malaysia, jeered andÃâà...
Netralnews
December 31, 1999
BANDA ACEH, NNC - Electricity network owned by state electricity company, PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (Persero) or PLN, experienced a total blackout in Banda Aceh City, Aceh Province, due to interconnection system interruption in North Sumatra Province. "Electricity in our place went off at aroundÃâà...
TIME
December 31, 1999
(BANDA ACEH, Indonesia) — Indonesia's deeply conservative Aceh province on Friday caned several unmarried couples for showing affection in public and two women for prostitution before an enthusiastic audience of hundreds. The canings were possibly the last to be done before large crowds in AcehÃâà...
