People are gathering in prayer and visiting mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark 20 years since the massive ...

Memory canonization is evident in the creation of disaster monuments and commemoration events, including in Aceh.

Christmas in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered tsunami waves that killed some 230,000 people ...

We miss them and we still don't know where they are,' said an Indonesian man who lost two of his children in the disaster ...

Twenty years after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that claimed over 230,000 lives across the Indian Ocean region, ...

On Thursday, December 24, the Bireuen District Court in Aceh Province sentenced Rahmat Juanda to death for the murder of a ...

Traumatised by the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit Indonesia 20 years ago, Teuku Hafid Hududillah has spent his adult life ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she ...

Residents looking at the damage caused by the 2004 tsunami at the Peunayong Bridge in Banda Aceh. ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO The streets of the city centre were littered with fishing boats, warped ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she recalls how she lost her mother while trying to escape the giant waves.

This is what they told us. Aceh, in the north-west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, was devastated — it suffered the first hit from the world's deadliest tsunami. Aceh's coastal waters are ...