Memory canonization is evident in the creation of disaster monuments and commemoration events, including in Aceh.
Two decades have passed since the deadliest earthquake and tsunami in modern history hit Indonesia’s westernmost province.
People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami hit the region in one of modern history's worst ...
More than 227,000 people died in the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and experts warn it could happen again.
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — People started gathering in prayer on Thursday and visiting the mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami, one of ...
The tsunami waves it triggered spread across the ... one of the greatest natural disasters in modern history. But it was Aceh, Indonesia – a province already blighted by decades of civil war ...
Twenty years after the devastating tsunami that hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the province of Aceh has returned to ...
LHOKNGA, Indonesia — Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has transformed her resilience into purpose. Defying Aceh ...
Some 160,000 of those were in Aceh, at the northwestern tip of Indonesia. Ayuni survived the tsunami by chance, staying at her aunt’s house in Banda Aceh instead of her family home in Lampuuk ...