Twenty years after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, CNA's Saifulbahri Ismail visits Aceh, Indonesia to explore the resilience and rebuilding efforts of survivors.
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history, killing 230,000 people across a dozen countries. Indonesia 's Aceh province bore the brunt of the tsunami, as a powerful 9-magnitude earthquake rocked the west coast of Sumatra and brought along giant waves that wiped out entire villages in minutes. The tsunami killed an estimated 130,000 people in Aceh . The densely populated Banda Aceh was the worst-hit — with some 60,000 people dead and many more missing.
In the first part of a CNA series commemorating 20 years since the disaster, Saifulbahri Ismail visits Aceh and looks at how survivors are rebuilding their lives
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