such as the Aceh Tsunami Museum and the Tsunami Poles erected in more than 50 locations across Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar. The establishment of disaster memorials is always political. Disaster ...

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 ...

I will never forget my visit to the Aceh Tsunami Museum, which commemorates not only the lives lost in the disaster, but (also) the incredible resilience of the Acehnese survivors,” he said.