Tens of houses and hundreds of hectares of paddy field in West Aceh district were flooded on Sunday following incessant rains overnight.
The flood began to affect a number of villages in the subdistricts of Mereubo, Pante Cereumen and Johan (...)
Authorities in a district of Indonesia's Aceh province have distributed 20,000 long skirts and prohibited shops from selling tight dresses as a regulation banning Muslim women from wearing revealing clothing took effect Thursday.
The long skirts (...)
United Nations Secretary
General Kofi Annan toured Indonesia's tsunami-ravaged Aceh
province Friday, where he witnessed "miles and miles of
destroyed shoreline" and saw the U.N. relief effort that
is delivering aid to up to a million homeless (...)
