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 ...
JAKARTA (Bernama): Floods, triggered by intense rainfall, have affected several provinces in Sumatra, Indonesia, including Aceh, North Sumatra, and Riau, with a total of 1,943 people affected ...
Aceh, on the northern tip of Sumatra island, is the only province in the Muslim-majority nation where offences such as gambling, adultery, and alcohol consumption are punishable by public caning.
The giant waves that engulfed the impoverished province on the northern tip of Sumatra island on December ... When details emerged from Aceh of the scale of the disaster, it triggered a huge ...
More than half the dead were in Aceh, the province on Sumatra's northern tip where Saudah and her family live. Now 64, Saudah can still remember the rumbling of the earth and her neighbors running out ...