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 ...

This later narrative was compelling enough to accelerate the post-tsunami recovery process. People in Aceh moved past the tsunami trauma by believing their deceased family members were martyrs who ...

Pictures by Chaideer Mahyuddin. Video by Agnes Anya. Former rebel commander Muharram Idris once led 3,000 men to fight Indonesia's army in separatist Aceh, but now serves as a local politician ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - Traumatised by the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit Indonesia 20 years ago, Teuku Hafid Hududillah has spent his adult life making sure that if disaster strikes ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — 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 ...

Nurlina is one of the thousands of people across Aceh who experienced, and survived, the magnitude 9.2 earthquake in the Indian Ocean west of the province and the tsunami that ensued, ravaging ...

three-minute siren, grave visits and mass prayers across Aceh on Thursday marked the 20 th anniversary of the 2004 earthquake and tsunami disaster that hit several countries, including Indonesia ...

It was a few minutes after 8am on December 26, 2004 when the tsunami slammed into the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh. Shortly after the 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Aceh province, 30 ...

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 modern history's worst ...

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 ...