More than 200 Rohingya came ashore over the weekend in Indonesia's Aceh province, officials said on Monday (January 6), amid ...

Aceh is also the only Indonesian province that ... bloody conflict. "It was likely the war would have continued," said Muharram. "But we believe that the tsunami was arranged by the Almighty.

The province of Aceh on the northern end of Sumatra suffered ... that brought a peaceful end to three decades of war. I will never forget what a former village chief, who lost his wife and five ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Dec 24 (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 ...

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

Indonesia's Aceh province bore the brunt of the tsunami, as a powerful 9-magnitude earthquake rocked the west coast of Sumatra and brought along giant waves that wiped out entire villages in minutes.

But the waves, possibly 30 metres high as they crashed into Banda Aceh, also led to peace after almost 30 years of war. Before the tsunami, more than 15,000 people, including civilians ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia: Aceh resident Nahrawi Noerdin was among the lucky ones to survive the devastating Indian ocean tsunami 20 years ago. The former small business operator was out at sea that ...

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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 ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Dec 23 (Reuters) - In front of Saudah's house on Indonesia's Sumatra island lie two damaged coast guard ships, washed ashore by a tsunami 20 years ago and a daily reminder ...