People are gathering in prayer and visiting mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark 20 years since the massive ...
The earthquake and tsunami claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, the deadliest natural disaster of the 21st century.
On 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake struck 240km west of Sumatra, Indonesia, rupturing the greatest ...
Christmas in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered tsunami waves that killed some 230,000 people ...
Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has ...
Traumatised by the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit Indonesia 20 years ago, Teuku Hafid Hududillah has spent his adult life ...
Memory canonization is evident in the creation of disaster monuments and commemoration events, including in Aceh.
Former rebel commander Muharram Idris once led 3,000 men to fight Indonesia's army in separatist Aceh, but now serves as a ...