Memory canonization is evident in the creation of disaster monuments and commemoration events, including in Aceh.
"It's a testament to the fortitude of the Acehnese people to see how Banda Aceh has risen from the waters." Clark goes on to cite the locals, their culture and the moving tsunami memorials as some ...
Traumatised by the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit Indonesia 20 years ago, Teuku Hafid Hududillah has spent his adult life ...
More than 227,000 people died in the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and experts warn it could happen again.
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 ...
Two decades have passed since the deadliest earthquake and tsunami in modern history hit Indonesia’s westernmost province.
Twenty years after the devastating tsunami that hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the province of Aceh has returned to ...
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 ...
Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she recalls how she lost her ...
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 ...
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 ...