For Colonel Fairoz Bin Hassan, joining the Army was initially a practical decision — a means to fund his education, as his ...

Indonesia's North Sumatra and Aceh provinces have been embroiled in a dispute over the control of four islands, but a video ...

But it was Aceh, Indonesia – a province already blighted by decades of civil war – that was hardest hit, particularly the capital Banda Aceh, where waves of up to 20-30m swept through the city ...

In the 20 years since the tsunami, coffee-shop culture has become a new element of Banda Aceh's identity, with black kopi sareng (coffee filtered through a fine, porous "sock"), the most popular ...

When I saw the bodies, I wondered if my own family were among them.” The tsunami killed more than 60,000 people in Banda Aceh, or nearly one quarter of the city’s population.

Indonesia on Thursday remembered its 167,000 victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami at the Sumatran city of Banda Aceh’s Baiturrahman Grand Mosque, one of the only buildings to withstand the ...

A woman weeps during a prayer marking 20 years of the massive Indian Ocean tsunami, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024. Credit: AP/Reza Saifullah ...

Chief Herald photographer Nick Moir flew into Banda Aceh the day after the Boxing Day tsunami. He found a city turned upside down, bodies lying in the streets – and a sense of vigilance that ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, a powerful 9.1-magnitude earthquake, triggered a tsunami that killed around 230,000 people across a dozen countries. Some 160,000 of those were in Aceh, at the northwestern tip of ...

More than 227,000 people were killed in the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and experts warn it could happen again. An Acehnese man among the ruins in Banda Aceh, on January 13, 2005 ...

One month after the tsunami – on Jaunary 30, 2005 – more than 1000 bodies a day were recovered from the ruins of Banda Aceh. Jason South After the tsunami, billions of dollars in foreign aid ...

Many tsunami monuments exist in Aceh, and some have even become tourist destinations. Tsunami monuments can be divided into two categories based on the construction.