After 20 years, the post-tsunami generation stays vigilant for future disasters
Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has ...
The Straits Times11d
Aceh tsunami: A heartrending scene still haunts me 20 years later
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia – The sickening smell hit me hard, even though I had been warned about it when I was assigned to cover the devastation in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, as a photojournalist a week ...
Prayers and tears mark 20 years since the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed some 230,000 people
People have started gathering in prayer and are visiting mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark 20 years since the ...
BBC6d
After the tsunami: Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 20 years on
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 ...
Asia One8d
Aceh hopeful as Indonesia beefs up warning system 20 years after tsunami
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — 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 strikes again ...
The Jakarta Post5d
Aceh marches on with lingering grief 20 years after tsunami
Also attending the commemoration event at Baiturrahman mosque in Banda Aceh were thousands of Aceh residents and representatives of foreign countries that assisted the rebuilding of disaster ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore9d
'My entire family was gone': Aceh thrives 20 years after tragic tsunami, but anguish remains
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 ...
SBS6d
Survivors in Banda Aceh recall horrors of Boxing Day tsunami
Soon after, he looked out over the ocean in Banda Aceh and saw a wall of water heading his way. “When I came out of my home, I saw the big wave. I ran immediately and didn’t turn back.
Tempo8d
Commemorating Two Decades of the Aceh Tsunami, UIN Ar-Raniry and UTU Hold Aceh International Forum 2024
Visitors observe a vehicle left over from the 2004 Aceh tsunami disaster at the Tsunami Museum, Banda Aceh, Aceh, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. During the 2024 PON XXI Aceh-North Sumatra, the number of ...
Sydney Morning Herald8d
The 2004 tsunami was one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history. It also carried peace
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Warning: Graphic content. Banda Aceh: Heri Syahrial thinks his family is here, somewhere under his feet and the crumbling path ...
The Star7d
Catholics hold muted Christmas mass in Aceh
BANDA ACEH: With flickering candles and the sound of organs, hundreds of Catholics held a muted Christmas Eve mass in Indonesia's Aceh province, the only one under ultraconservative Islamic law in ...
Sydney Morning Herald6d
Twenty years after photographing the aftermath of a tsunami, I still check for high ground at the beach
GRAPHIC CONTENT: Chief Herald photographer Nick Moir flew into Banda Aceh the day after the Boxing Day tsunami. He found a city turned upside down, bodies lying in the streets – and a sense of ...