"We miss them and we still don't know where they are. All we know is that every year we visit the mass grave in Ulee Lheue and Siron," said Muhamad Amirudin, who lost two of his children 20 years ago and has never found their bodies. "This life is only temporary, so we do our best to be useful to others," Amirudin, visiting the grave with his wife, said.
The powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami that killed around 230,000 people across a dozen countries, reaching as far as East Africa.
Even though 20 years have passed, survivors in Indonesia are still grieving the loved ones they lost to the giant wave that flattened buildings all the way to the provincial capital of Banda Aceh.
The rebuilding efforts were made possible by the support of international organizations, and infrastructure in Aceh has been rebuilt and is now more resilient than before the tsunami struck.
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