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 ...

Rina Meutia survived the devastating tsunami 10 years ago in Indonesia's Banda Aceh. She talks with NPR's Eric Westervelt about the immediate aftermath and how the region has changed since then.

But it was Aceh, Indonesia – a province already blighted by decades of civil war – that was hardest hit, particularly the capital Banda Aceh, where waves of up to 20-30m swept through the city ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Dec 27 (Reuters) - A large crowd of Indonesian students stormed a convention centre housing hundreds of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in the city of Banda Aceh on Wednesday ...

Indonesia's Aceh Province Publicly Canes Two Men for Same-Sex Relationship BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) -Two young Indonesian men convicted of having a same-sex relationship were publicly caned ...

The devastating tsunami of December 2004 left Banda Aceh a wasteland, a hellish landscape of debris. Tens of thousands of people lost their lives. But fast-forward nine years and the city is ...

A U.S. helicopter on a relief mission crashed in a rice paddy 500 yards from the Banda Aceh airport Monday, injuring two of ten servicemen aboard. As the tsunami relief effort entered its third ...

I remember going to a place called Lambaro, just outside Banda Aceh, and that was my first interaction – seeing hundreds of corpses being laid out outside the shops." Tomi Soetjipto worked as a ...