Memory canonization is evident in the creation of disaster monuments and commemoration events, including in Aceh.

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 ...

Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has ...

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 ...

People have started gathering in prayer and are visiting mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province to mark 20 years since the ...

Traumatised by the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit Indonesia 20 years ago, Teuku Hafid Hududillah has spent his adult life ...

Indonesians pray for those who lost their lives in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami at a mass grave in Banda Aceh on the 20th anniversary of the disaster. More than 220,000 people across Asia died ...

Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old tsunami survivor, operates a coffee machine at the cafe she runs in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) Qurrata Ayuni ...

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 ...