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The Rebel
March 1, 2018
The duo was beaten with a rattan stick outside a mosque in Aceh province as spectators, some of them jeering, took pictures of the flogging. “This is to create a deterrent effect, in order for people not to repeat violations of Islamic sharia law,” said Banda Aceh's Mayor Aminullah Usman, according to the AFPÃâà...
Newsweek
March 1, 2018
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 ... The law was adopted in 2001 as part of the Indonesian government's effort to end an Islamic insurgency in Aceh, where 98 percent of the 5 millionÃâà...
The Manila Times
February 22, 2018
ZAMBOANGA CITY: The military freed at least two dozen Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels who were intercepted trying to smuggle a cache of firearms in restive Maguindanao province on Wednesday while 157 unlicensed guns were surrendered by at least four village officials. The weapons wereÃâà...
Mongabay.com
February 5, 2018
ACEH, Indonesia — Deforestation slowed last year in the Indonesian province of Aceh, home to the Leuser Ecosystem biodiversity hotspot, according to a local forest watchdog. The province, which spans 58,377 square kilometers (22,539 square miles) on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra, lost 173Ãâà...
Consortium News
February 4, 2018
As acting Consul General in Sumatra, he monitored the Aceh insurgency and set up safety networks to protect US citizens. In Hong Kong, he tracked reports of American POW/MIAs and oversaw the US program for Vietnamese “boat refugees”, enacting measures to protect those who were endangered andÃâà...
seattlepi.com
February 2, 2018
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Muslims in Indonesia's conservative and semiautonomous Aceh province protested an investigation into local police who rounded up and publicly humiliated transgender women. Several hundred people rallied outside the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in the provincialÃâà...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
Two Indonesian Christians were publicly flogged in conservative Aceh province Tuesday for playing a children's entertainment game seen as ... to be punished under Aceh's strict religious law since it was adopted in 2001 as part of a deal with the central government to end a long-running insurgency.
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
Two Indonesian Christians were publicly flogged in conservative Aceh province Tuesday for playing a children's entertainment game seen as ... to be punished under Aceh's strict religious law since it was adopted in 2001 as part of a deal with the central government to end a long-running insurgency.
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