A couple were caned 140 times for having sex outside of marriage and drinking alcohol by sharia police in Indonesia. Sexual relations between unmarried couples is strictly forbidden in Aceh, the only ...

Syariah po­lice officers caned a couple 140 times each in Aceh province for having sex outside marriage and drinking alcohol, likely one of the severest such punishments since the deeply conservative ...

RM340,000 was channelled to the authorities there and RM60,000 to humanitarian missions on the ground. Of the amount, RM340,000 was for the Aceh authorities, and the remaining RM60,000 for ...

The punishment, carried out before onlookers in Banda Aceh, is among the harshest imposed since the province adopted Islamic law in 2001 ...

Sexual relations between an unmarried couple are strictly outlawed in Aceh, the only place in Indonesia to impose a version of sharia.

The 46-year-old told officers that he could not travel by air as his passport was held by the first wife A 46-year-old man from Perak in Malaysia sneaked out of the country to visit his pregnant ...

Soori Penang, a transformed 19th-century Chinese clan compound in George Town, has an unusually poignant backstory ...

KLANG: A single father from Aceh, Indonesia, risked his life crossing the sea with his three-month-old daughter in an attempt ...

MEDAN – Nearly 92,000 people displaced by devastating floods in Aceh province remain in tents two months after the disaster, with progress on temporary housing lagging far behind survivors’ needs.

In recent months, the number of foreign tourists from Singapore and Malaysia visiting Batam City, Riau Islands Province, ...

A divorced Malaysian couple trying to rekindle their relationship has landed in jail after religious enforcement officers ...

Mining, plantations, and fires have caused the clearance of large tracts of lush Indonesian rainforest over recent decades.