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Indonesia's North Sumatra and Aceh provinces have been embroiled in a dispute over the control of four islands, but a video ...
The December 2004 tsunami that killed more than 200,000 and wiped-out thousands of communities on the shores of the Indian Ocean was especially devastating to the people of Aceh, Indonesia. A ...
Prayers in Banda Aceh yesterday for the victims of the tsunami that struck 10 years ago today and killed 170,000 people in the Indonesian city (Reuters) “After the earthquake, my son went to see ...
The December 2004 Asian tsunami left nearly a quarter of a million people dead. Indonesia's Aceh province was among the hardest hit. But nine years on, the province is home to a largely successful ...
Triggered by a massive deep-sea earthquake 80 miles off the coast of Banda Aceh, the wall of water hit at 8 a.m. on Dec. 26, 2004, leaving death and wreckage in its wake.
Rebels hand in all of their declared 840 weapons, government releases more than a 1,000 political prisoners, military withdraws nearly ...
Almost six months after a tsunami smashed into Indonesia, the people of Aceh province remain frustrated by the disruption of their lives as they wait for promised reconstruction to begin.
2005-12-25 04:00:00 PDT Banda Aceh, Indonesia-- The morality enforcers, a squad of men clad in green trousers and white shirts and women in white head scarves, stride on to this provincial capital ...
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia—Devastated a decade ago by the Indian Ocean tsunami, the Indonesian province of Aceh has turned in its recovery to religion and strict Shariah law. Many Acehnese say the ...
Raihal Fajriah survived the 2004 Asian tsunami, and now works in Aceh's tsunami museum. She spoke to the BBC's Helier Cheung about her typical work day.
Indonesia got a few things right in rebuilding after the 2004 tsunami, says the country director for the United Nations Development Program. ... What Aceh Got Right Rebuilding From the 2004 Tsunami.
BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA — When a magnitude-9.0 undersea quake unleashed a tsunami in the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004, no place on land was closer than the Indonesian province of Aceh, on the ...