Memory canonization is evident in the creation of disaster monuments and commemoration events, including in Aceh.
On 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake struck 240km west of Sumatra, Indonesia, rupturing the greatest ...
Traumatised by the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit Indonesia 20 years ago, Teuku Hafid Hududillah has spent his adult life ...
People are gathering in prayer and visiting mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark 20 years since the massive ...
Twenty years after the devastating tsunami that hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the province of Aceh has returned to ...
Christmas in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered tsunami waves that killed some 230,000 people ...
Traumatised by the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit Indonesia 20 years ago, Teuku Hafid Hududillah has spent his adult life ...
Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has ...
Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she recalls how she lost her ...
This later narrative was compelling enough to accelerate the post-tsunami recovery process. People in Aceh moved past the tsunami trauma by believing their deceased family members were martyrs who ...
Mourners flocked to several mass grave sites in Banda Aceh and neighboring Aceh Besar regency starting on Thursday morning.