The Sabang Free Trade Zone and Free Port Authority (BPKS) in Aceh is strengthening maritime tourism diplomacy with ASEAN ...

An international human rights group has criticised Malaysia for its treatment of people fleeing fighting in the Indonesian province of Aceh. Thousands of would-be refugees have entered Malaysia since ...

Ethnic Rohingya disembark from their boat upon landing on a beach in Ulee Madon, North Aceh, Indonesia, on Nov. 16, 2023. A dramatic story of survival and rescue off the western coast of Indonesia ...

In September 2003 UNHCR officials acknowledged that they believed there were 8,000-9,000 people from Aceh in Malaysia who may be of concern to UNHCR. 29 That number has undoubtedly risen since then.

Aceh police said on Saturday that a 55-year-old woman, linked to the alleged trafficking of a teenage girl to Malaysia, has ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Mercy Malaysia’s Norazam Abu Samah spent four years in Aceh after the 2004 tsunami helping in the rebuilding effort. Upon hearing that a 6.5-magnitude earthquake had struck Aceh ...

5 Human Rights Watch interview with twenty-nine-year-old man [name withheld], Malaysia, October 26, 2003.. 6 See Human Rights Watch, “Aceh Under Martial Law: Inside the Secret War,” A Human ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sept 5 (UNHCR) - Malaysian authorities today deported seven asylum seekers to the strife-torn Indonesian province of Aceh amid serious concerns raised by the UN refugee agency ...

More than 100 hungry and weak Rohingya Muslims were found on a beach in Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh on Sunday after weeks at sea, officials said.. The group arrived on Jangka beach ...

About 250 Rohingya refugees crammed onto a wooden boat were turned away by locals off the coast of Aceh province. ... often in flimsy boats, to try to reach Malaysia or Indonesia.

Malaysia will continue to support the rebuilding of Aceh which was devastated by the tsunami in 2004, said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

A high-ranking delegation from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees met with Malaysian authorities Friday to persuade the government not to deport more than 150 asylum seekers from ...