North Aceh Regency News Today

The Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) reported that North Aceh Regency has been hit by flooding since Sunday, Dec. 24.

JAKARTA (ANN/THE JAKARTA POST) – A coalition consisting of human rights organisations, a former Attorney General, and respected human rights advocate Marzuki Darusman, has formally called on Indonesia’s National Commission on Human Rights (KomnasHAM) to investigate allegations of arms sales by state-owned arms manufacturers to the Myanmar junta. These purported transactions are claimed to have […]

Police say suspect admitted he was driven by a habit of watching porn videos

GENEVA: The UN decried Tuesday the alarming rise in the number of Rohingya refugees lost at sea fleeing their Myanmar homeland or Bangladesh last year, warning more would die without concerted...

Acehnesse fishermen help evacuate Rohingya children from Myanmar onto the shorelines of Lancok village, in Indonesia's North Aceh Regency on June 25, 2020. (AFP) YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar authorities have sentenced 112 Rohingya, including a dozen children, to between two and five years in prison f

Severe weather forecast across much of Indonesia through at least Oct. 12. Disruptions due to flooding ongoing in multiple regions.

Heavy rain caused severe flooding in parts of Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, on 06 October 2022, where authorities report 3 people have died. Meanwhile over 18,000 people were forced from their homes after severe flooding in North Aceh Regency in...

POLICY FORUM 9 February 2021 Recent events highlight the scale of political corruption in Indonesia and reveal the need for a greater separation of the political and bureaucratic realms, Adfin Rochmad Baidhowah writes. Corruption at the local level is a chronic illness that has poisoned Indonesia’s governance for many years. The recent arrest of the regent of Banggai Laut along with 16 bureaucrats on corruption charges by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is a reminder of the scale ...