Indonesia has far paid the highest price among the countries of the Indian Ocean tsunami-there just ten years. This is in Banda Aceh, on the western tip of the Indonesian archipelago, until Sunday will celebrate this sad anniversary. In case this Friday, the Indonesian president and senior representatives of foreign governments and international NGOs, thanked for their support that enabled the Aceh region to stand up.
"The commemoration ceremony is not made only to pray for the victims and to thank the people around the world who helped us. This is also the time when we get to learn from this tragedy to resolve, in the unit, a complicated problem, "said Jusuf Kalla, the Indonesian vice president.
Nearly 170,000 people died in Indonesia and 500,000 were displaced. To honor them, thousands of Indonesians gathered to pray in the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque, one of the few buildings in Banda Aceh to have resisted the giant wave that hit the island of Sumatra in 2004 .
On 26 December 2004 precisely to 7:58 pm local time, a magnitude 9.3 earthquake on the Richter scale occurred off Indonesia, causing a tsunami that sweeps all Indian Ocean coast . Within hours, the villages are wiped out and at least 230,000 people were killed.
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