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Technology and globalisation help diversify the channels for the smong narrative but also risk eroding this local wisdom – if we do not try to preserve it.

Off the southern coast of Aceh lies Simeulue, a small island with a powerful story of survival. When the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami killed hundreds of thousands across the region in 2004 ...

When Ahmadi, a resident of the Indonesian island of Simeulue, sings a lullaby to his 1-year-old grandson, the song is not one about fairies and angels but rather about the precautions to take for a ...

when a tsunami hit Simeulue Island off the southern coast of Aceh in 1907 and killed 400. A region prone to natural disasters, Aceh had recorded at least three tsunamis that hit the province ...

White arrows point to debris left by the tsunami. (Bruce Jaffe/Contributed) There was one bright spot. Our last stop was Simeulue Island off the coast of Banda Aceh, Sumatra. It was the closest ...

The 2004 tsunami was the first time Shelterbox had ... The small Indonesian island of Simeulue had not received any support from other humanitarian organisations, Mr Boec said, so the team ...