Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – The Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency for Aceh and Nias (BRR) has lashed out at the Ministry of Finance for…

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – It was almost dusk on Sunday, but a group of children at the refugee camp were still playing outside despite the mud…

Simon Parry – Oxfam has built around 300 homes so far at a cost of $ 25,000 each and hopes to build 920 on six different sites around Banda Aceh…

Simon Parry – Her shattered village was one of the most enduring images of the tsunami. Now, 10 months after the horror, Marini Hermansyah cradles…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Despite considerable progress, the Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Agency (BRR) for Aceh and Nias has been facing…

Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – Indonesia, criticised for slow reconstruction in tsunami-hit areas, has set up a special trust fund to speed rebuilding…

Jakarta – Poor coordination has been blamed for the slow rehabilitation and reconstruction process in tsunami-struck Aceh, particularly in the…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The government insisted on Thursday that the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) should submit the names of its 3,000 former…

Banda Aceh – The Free Aceh Movement (GAM) has decided not to submit a list of names of some 3,000 former GAM fighters as requested by the…

Adi Warsidi, Banda Aceh – The number of cases of human rights violations in Aceh following the signing of the Helsinki agreement between the…

Fitraya Ramadhanny, Jakarta – The presence of militia in Aceh post the peace negotiations in Helsinki still lays the grounds for the potential…

Simon Montlake, Leupung – Most days Farid Maulidi spends patching up a makeshift highway – filling in holes, repairing culverts, shoveling sand,…

John Aglionby – The peace process begun two months ago by the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (Gam) is developing in a way…

Lhokseumawe – Iskandar Muda Military chief Lt. Gen. Supiadin AS has said that despite the peace process in Aceh, blackmailing practices and…

A federal judge said Indonesian villagers can sue Exxon Mobil Corp. over allegations the Irving-based company contributed to human rights abuses…

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – The Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM) demanded on Wednesday that the Indonesian Military (TNI) punish a TNI soldier accused…

Jakarta – The TNI pulled out another 2,163 soldiers from Aceh on Tuesday as the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) completed their second round of weapons…

Aguswandi, Banda Aceh – Ten months after the tsunami, and six months after the Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Agency (BRR) was established, the…

Bill Tarrant, Lamteungoh – Putri's baby is big. At 4 kg, baby Angi is, in fact, huge by the natal standards of Indonesia – all the more remarkable…

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Reconstruction projects in tsunami-devastated Aceh have been too slow over the past 10 months, leading to popular…

Jakarta – The second phase of disarmament in Aceh has been extended as the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) has not yet handed over the target number of…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The government is drafting a bill on the Aceh administration, which may dash the hopes of former Aceh rebels to contest…

Banda Aceh – A rebel in Indonesia's Aceh province has been shot and wounded by a soldier during a disarmament ceremony aimed at ending decades of…

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Several Aceh separatists were shot as GAM began a second round of weapons decommissioning on Friday as part of a peace…

Sudirman Nasir, Melbourne – It is crucial that Acehnese, men and women, be directly involved in all stages of rehabilitation programs in the…

Achmad Sukarsono, Jakarta – The peace process in Indonesia's Aceh province could soon be irreversible, the head of a European Union-led team…

Jakarta – The chief peace monitor in Indonesia's Aceh urged exiled separatist rebel leaders on Wednesday to return as soon as possible to help…

Adi Warsidi, Banda Aceh – Around 1,000 people from a number of Acehnese social organisations participated in a seminar to discuss a draft law on…

Adi Warsidi, Jakarta – As many as 116 Free Aceh Movement (GAM) members being detained in Sumatra and Java have yet to be granted amnesty. This is…

Ridwan M. Sijabat, Jakarta – There was nowhere to go; all thought was on escaping their burning homes. In an instant, residents in Aceh became…

Banda Aceh – The drafting of a bill on Aceh's governance has excluded representatives from the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), which…

Aguswandi, Banda Aceh – No matter which political camp or organization you belong to in Aceh, there is one similarity throughout: Women are not…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency for Aceh and Nias (BRR) reiterated its promise on Tuesday to speed…

Banda Aceh – Acehnese students staged a peaceful protest on Monday demanding that the government dissolve the Rehabilitation and…

Jakarta – The Indonesian military's top commander denied reports that armed militias continued to exist in Aceh, threatening the province's…

Imanuddin Razak, Jakarta – The Aceh peace agreement has been signed and non-local Indonesian Military (TNI) troops and police officers have begun…

Febry Orida, Leupung – Every morning Yahya leaves home with a hoe in hand. But he is not tending his coffee crops as he did before the tsunami…

Aleksius Jemadu, Bandung – The success of a monitoring mission involving foreign parties in resolving an intra-state conflict can be achieved as…

Peter Gelling – The Indonesian military on Sunday withdrew the last of a promised 6,000 troops from Aceh Province, completing the first phase of…

Nani Afrida, Tamiang – Tears flowed down the cheeks of Nuraida, 35, a resident of Bendahara district, Tamiang regency, Aceh. She murmured prayers…

Miswar, Banda Aceh – The chairperson of the Acehnese Popular Democratic Resistance Front (FPDRA), Thamrin Ananda, is calling on all parties not…

Riswan, Banda Aceh – The Acehnese people are calling on the Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM) to disarm the militia in Aceh during the…

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – The United Nations food agency expressed deep concern over the slow recovery in tsunami-devastated…

Ardimas Sasdi, Jakarta – The peace pact signed by the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian government in Helsinki on Aug. 15 has so far…

Simon Montlake, Lhue and Banda Aceh – For Mahfud and Jaafar, two former Acehnese fighters, life after the rebellion has left time for quiet…

Nani Afrida, Lhokseumawe – Around 800 Indonesian Military (TNI) soldiers left Aceh on Sunday as the mass withdrawal of reinforcement troops from…

Jakarta – Indonesia will pull 2,600 soldiers out of Aceh province on Tuesday as it steps up the withdrawal of troops under a peace agreement that…

Mark Forbes – On Boxing Day Irwandi Yusuf clambered onto a roof inside Banda Aceh's prison and watched a torrent of water wash the walls and most…

Jerry Norton, Teupin Raya – Aceh rebels have more than met their initial commitment to hand in their weapons under an agreement aimed at ending…

Jerry Norton, Banda Aceh – Indonesia will begin withdrawing thousands of troops from strife-torn Aceh province as soon as rebels there complete…