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GATEWAY TO INDONESIA  Information & Research Resources     Focus on Current Affairs 1 2 3 4 5 6 7   National and International Media Links INDONESIA MONITOR   Home  History Presidents Special Topics Country Profile Political Profile Economic Profile Cultural Profile  Maps  Books Site Map Contact Us Political Sukarno Years Political Parties Suharto Years Government Habibie Military A R Wahid Govt Profiles Megawati MPR Profiles International Relations Elections     MILITARY WIRANTO MILITARY PROFILES S B YUDHOYONO  ARMS SALES PRABOWO Please report broken links to webmaster   THE INDONESIAN EARTHQUAKE TSUNAMI DISASTER December 2004 1 2 3 IN PICTURES (published by various media as quoted) Guardian: Disaster around the Indian ocean in pictures- Dec 2004 Guardian : IN PICTURES - TSUNAMI DISASTER IN INDONESIA Disaster in Indonesia Disaster in India Disaster in Thailand Disaster in Sri Lanka Disaster in Malaysia Aftermath around the Indian Ocean IN PICTURES - TSUNAMI DISASTER IN INDONESIA Satellite pictures show how much of Banda Aceh has been devastated Satellite pictures show how much of Banda Aceh has been devastated Before After Guardian: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono speaks with a woman who lost her family Guardian: A woman cries at a temporary mortuary of victims at a mosque in Banda Aceh. Guardian: Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and First Lady Herawati Kristiani distribute aid to tsunami victims in Banda Aceh Guardian: A man is comforted by his father as he weeps next to his badly injured daughter in Banda Aceh Relatives are stilsearching for their loved ones 12/30/04 BBC: The people of Aceh can scarcely come to terms with the disaster 12/30/04     USA Today: Refugees who have lost their homes stand in line for food aid at a distribution point in Banda Aceh 12/30/04 | NYT: In Banda Aceh, Indonesia, lines for basic supplies like gasoline were long 12/30/04 CNN: A man walks through a flattened village in Indonesia's Aceh province. Remote areas of the province remain isolated 12/30/04 NYT: The force of the undersea earthquake broke up part of Banda Aceh, Indonesia 12/30/04 NYT: In Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh , residents walked through debris Wednesday at the city market 12/30/04 Guardian: Residents of Lhokseumawe, Aceh province, Indonesia who have lost their homes in the tsunami take refuge in the local hospital 12/29/04 BBC:  Millions around the Indian Ocean rim need food and clean water 12/31/04 BBC: Whole communities have been wiped out 12/31/04     Guardian A woman cries at a temporary mortuary of tsunami and earthquake victims at a mosque in Banda Aceh 12/29/04 Guardian: A survivor salvages whatever is left of his stall at a commercial area in Banda Aceh 12/29/04     Time: A man looks for relatives among victims of the earthquake in Banda Aceh 01/29/04 NYT: People carried their belongings along a damaged highway toward Banda Aceh in the hope of finding food and shelter 01/02/04     Guardian: Residents of Lhokseumawe, Aceh province, Indonesia who have lost their homes in the tsunami take refuge in the local hospital 12/29/04 USA Today: An Indonesian Air Force crewman tries to catch a much-needed rest amidst boxes of relief supplies brought in Thursday 12/30/04     TIME: Indonesia - Two days after the quake, three corpses in a river 01/02/05 MSNBC: A woman carries a box of drinking water while other tsunami survivors line up for relief rations in the Indonesian provincial capital of Banda Aceh. 01/04/05 CNN: Indonesian navy sailors load donated goods bound for Bandah Aceh Wednesday in Jakarta.12/30/04   CNN: Survivors in the Indonesian village of Lhoknga wait for a boat near the wreckage of a bridge 12/31/04     Guardian The once-bustling port of Banda Aceh taken from a RAAF Hercules relief flight 12/29/04 The centre of Banda Aceh has been devastated 12/28/04     NYT: scene of devastation of still-isolated Meulaboh, Indonesia, the town closest to the epicenter of last Sunday's earthquake 01/02/05 NYT: A health official, left, fumigated yesterday near victims' bodies in Banda Aceh 01/01/05     NYT: The tsunami devastated Meulaboh; 7,000 people were killed 01/01/05 NYT: A member of the U.S. Navy from the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln prepared to unload bottled water at the airport in Banda Aceh, Indonesia 01/01/05     BBC: Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono inspected supplies at Banda Aceh airport .01/01/05  CNN: Indonesian soldiers unload relief supplies from a C-130 cargo plane at Banda Aceh airport Saturday 01/01/05     BBC: The US navy has despatched 12 helicopters to deliver aid to the devastated Indonesian province of Aceh 01/01/05 BBC:The authorities are anxious to speed up aid distribution 01/01/05     BBC:It is still a huge task getting relief supplies to survivors in this remote western region of Sumatra, as much of the infrastructure has been destroyed. 12/31/04 BBC: Meulaboh -Many are taking what possessions they can, and leaving the town in search of help 12/31/04     BBC: At least 10,000 people are thought to have died in Meulaboh, a town of 50-90,000 people, although accurate figures may never be known 12/31/04 BBC: But at least one resident was anxious to prove that not everyone had perished in this stricken town. "Please let people know that we are still alive," one man told AFP 12/31/04         Newsweek 12/29/04   Time: Photo Essay - Asia Tsunami Time: Photo Essay - The Downed World       Newyork Times: Efforts to send rescuers to Aceh have been complicated by the region's remoteness as well as a policy of keeping all but members of the military out of the strife-torn province 12/29/04   Guardian: Meteorology and Geophysics Office points to a seismograph read-out on a computer after the Indonesian island of Sumatra was hit by a strong quake earlier in the day, causing the tsunami 12/29/04     Reuters: Indonesian man looks out over a bridge at corpses piled up in Banda Aceh on December 30, 2004, after the city was devastated by huge tsunami wave which hit on December 26, 2004   1 2 3   BOOKS ON INDONESIA     editor@indonesia-pusaka.com

BBC: Indonesia's death toll surpasses 27,000 - 12/28/04     NYT: Asia's Deadly Waves 12/30/04   Guardian: Grief 12/29/04   Guardian: 'Please help 12/31/04 BBC: The centre of Banda Aceh has been devastated 12/28/04   Guardian The once-bustling port of Banda Aceh taken from a RAAF Hercules relief flight 12/29/04     Sri Lanka photojournal 12/31/04     CNN: Thainland -Phuket Paradise washed away.Tourists are surrounded by devastation on the island 12/30/04     BBC: Aid workers in Phuket are trying to trace the missing12/31/04   Guardian: A woman laments her missing son and father in the Galle region, 78 miles south of Colombo, Sri Lanka. 12/29/04     Guardian: An unidentified woman is comforted by family members and relatives at a hospital in Hambatota, southern Sri Lanka,12/30/04     Guardian: Sri Lankans rush to get food supplies from a relief van in Hikaduwa 12/29/04   Guardian: Women mourn at the side of a mass grave in Cuddore, 116 miles south of Madras, as victims of the Tsunami are buried 12/29/04   Guardian: A Sri Lankan resident walks past a twisted railway track after tidal waves hit a train  12/29/04   Guardian: Displaced Indian survivors of the tsunami struggle for food aid in Nagapattinam, Madras 12/31/04   Guardian: Health department workers remove a body from the debris of a destroyed house in Velakanni, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu 12/29/04    Guardian: Volunteers cremate bodies in Nagapattinam 12/29/04   Time: The Marina beach in Madras hours after the tidal waves hit in the early morning Sunday 12/26/04   Guardian: Tsunami disaster in Thailand 12/29/04     Guardian: The body of a western tourist lies on a debris-littered beach near Khao Lak , Thailand 12/29/04   Guardian: Thailand - Keeping disease at bay 12/29/04     Guardian: The clean-up starts Local residents clear debris near Patong Beach in Phuket 12/29/04   Time: Thai workers make coffins in Krabi province, southern Thailand. Hundreds of people were reported missing and at least 866 feared dead following the deadly earthquake   Guardian: Malaysia - Surveying the damage Tourists enjoy the beach as a Penang hotel warns against entering the sea 12/29/04   Guardian: Malaysia -  A father's loss Workers carry a coffin, followed by the victim's father, second left, at a hospital in Penang 12/29/04     Guardian: Villagers look at dead fish washed ashore after tsunamis hit Penang Island, northwestern Malaysia 12/29/04