Aceh Tsunami: Monuments help to remember disasters - and forget them
Building monuments is one way to preserve the memory of the disaster. However, many survivors feel less connected to the ...
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After the tsunami: Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 20 years on
On 26 December 2004 at 07:59 local time, a magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake struck 240km west of Sumatra, Indonesia, rupturing the greatest fault length of any recorded earthquake (1,500km long ...
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Aceh Tsunami: Monuments help to remember disasters—and forget them
First, monuments built from tsunami debris that are deliberately maintained, modified, or enhanced with certain elements. Examples include the stranded electric-generator ship (the PLTD Apung ...
Indonesians mark 2 decades since tragic tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands
Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she recalls how she lost her ...
Sydney Morning Herald9d
Twenty years after photographing the aftermath of a tsunami, I still check for high ground at the beach
with destroyed buildings and ships acting as its blade. This is a recollection of my experience covering the Asian tsunami as an Australian photographer in Banda Aceh. Other photographer friends ...
The Jakarta Post4dOpinion
Monuments help to remember, and forget, disasters
Encouraging the active participation of residents is essential to preserving disaster memory, maintaining memorials and ...
SFGate13d
Indonesians mark 2 decades since the tragic tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP ... a former floating diesel-powered power plant barge that washed about 6 kilometers (about 4 miles) inland by the tsunami into another memorial place.
Boxing Day tsunami, 20 years on: the miraculous triumph of human endurance
This is how a community rebuilds after a catastrophe – slowly, painfully and from the tsunami-­sodden ground up.