such as the Aceh Tsunami Museum and the Tsunami Poles erected in more than 50 locations across Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar. The establishment of disaster memorials is always political. Disaster ...

Across the province, memories of the tsunami can be felt almost everywhere. The Aceh Tsunami Museum in Banda Aceh houses photos of the aftermath and vehicle debris, serving as a constant reminder of ...

The province of Aceh on the northern end of Sumatra suffered the heaviest damage, with more than 160,000 people killed. Six years after the Boxing Day Tsunami—or the Asian Tsunami as the disaste ...

The Tsunami Museum was built to remember the 160,000 inhabitants of Banda Aceh who died in the disaster. It also serves as a shelter to protect people against any future tsunamis. Syarifa Marlina ...

I will never forget my visit to the Aceh Tsunami Museum, which commemorates not only the lives lost in the disaster, but (also) the incredible resilience of the Acehnese survivors,” he said.

Some 160,000 of those were in Aceh, at the northwestern tip of Indonesia. Ayuni survived the tsunami by chance, staying at her aunt’s house in Banda Aceh instead of her family home in Lampuuk ...

Emotional ceremonies began across Asia on Thursday to remember the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami devastated ... In Indonesia's Aceh Province where more than 100,000 ...

Technology and globalisation help diversify the channels for the smong narrative but also risk eroding this local wisdom – if we do not try to preserve it.