The giant waves that engulfed the impoverished province on the northern tip of Sumatra island on December 26, 2004 ... among Aceh's deeply religious Muslim population that God sent the tsunami ...

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 and her father to the sea ...

Through collaborations with communities, Mercy Corps is supporting locally led disaster preparedness in the wake of the 2004 ...

CNA visits the Indonesian province for an insight into how survivors are rebuilding their lives 20 years after one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history.

Twenty years after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami left over 220,000 people dead, residents of Aceh, Indonesia, ...

In the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami ... was compelling enough to accelerate the post-tsunami recovery process. People in Aceh moved past the tsunami trauma by believing their ...

In the years since 2004, infrastructure in Aceh has been rebuilt and is now more resilient than before the tsunami struck. Early warning systems have been installed in coastal areas to alert residents ...

He cannot know for sure. The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami left so many bodies mouldering in the ruins of Banda Aceh that authorities dug several pits and filled them in haste, trying to prevent disease ...

“We’re going to need more body bags,” I thought to myself. Malaysian aid workers collecting bodies in the middle of Banda Aceh due to the tsunami on Dec 26, 2004. Supplied photo. The 2004 Asian ...

Christmas in 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra set off a mammoth wave that was ...

The 22-minute documentary features survivors and how they rebuilt their lives after the disaster. Read more at ...