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

On 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake struck 240km west of Sumatra, Indonesia, rupturing the greatest ...

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

Christmas in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered tsunami waves that killed some 230,000 people ...

The powerful 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, triggered a tsunami that killed ...

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

Indian Ocean tsunami that devastated Aceh proved to be a blessing in disguise by paving the way for the immediate resolution ...

The earthquake and tsunami claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, the deadliest natural disaster of the 21st century.

Indonesia and Thailand are marking 20 years since a tsunami caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people in one of the ...

He cannot know for sure. The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami left so many bodies mouldering in the ruins of Banda Aceh that authorities dug several pits and filled them in haste, trying to prevent disease ...

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Aceh tsunami disaster, two universities hold the Aceh International Forum ...

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 ...