I'm Barry Petersen and this Letter from Asia comes from Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Of course you expected this reporter to be standing in the middle of devastation. Well, let me share a little known ...
The disaster on Indonesia's Sumatra Island in late November 2025 devastated many places in Aceh, including tourist areas.
Ten years ago on Friday, one of the deadliest natural disasters in history hit several Indian Ocean nations, killing as many as 230,000 people and causing untold damage. It was the Boxing Day tsunami, ...
DPR is holding a meeting in Banda Aceh with the Task Force for Acceleration of Post-Sumatra Disaster Rehabilitation and ...
NPR's Madeleine Brand talks with Chris Rainier, a National Geographic photographer stationed with the International Medical Corp in Banda Aceh, the capital of Indonesia's hard-hit Aceh province, about ...
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia – Ten years after a tsunami hit this city Dec. 26, 2004, killing 167,000 people, roads and bridges have been rebuilt, there are houses on the beach, trees have grown back, and ...
Rina Meutia survived the devastating tsunami 10 years ago in Indonesia's Banda Aceh. She talks with NPR's Eric Westervelt about the immediate aftermath and how the region has changed since then. This ...
The devastating tsunami of December 2004 left Banda Aceh a wasteland, a hellish landscape of debris. Tens of thousands of people lost their lives. But fast-forward nine years and the city is ...
It is Saturday night, and the streets of Banda Aceh are packed. Cars and motorcycles jostle for space on the roads, while "Bentor" taxis - motorcycles attached to wheelbarrows - scout for passengers.
Telkom Indonesia has launched a new data center in Banda Aceh on the southern end of the Island of Sumatra. One of the company's "neuCentrIX" data centers, the facility will serve government services ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Clambering over a decommissioned, rusting 3,500-tonne floating power station would not usually be high on my holiday ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback