Aceh Rebuilt Decade After Tsunami, But Scars Remain

The Apung 1 barge, which was generating electricity offshore, was carried five kilometers by the tsunami and came to rest atop two houses. (Steve Herman/VOA News)

Un habitant passe devant un camion incendié près de la route où les manifestants sont passés à Atteridgeville, à l'ouest de Pretoria, Afrique du Sud, le 21 juin 2016.

Surya was seven when the tsunami hit. He was seriously injured and spent a month in hospital. Twelve of his 16 family members perished. (Steve Herman/VOA News)

Three girls at a secondary school in Aceh which was destroyed in the tsunami. Construction continues a decade later. (Steve Herman/VOA News)

Homes have been rebuilt along the shore in Aceh, within the 300-meter exclusion zone in which it was recommended that no one reside again. (Steve Herman/VOA News)

A mass grave and tsunami memorial in Banda Aceh. About 35,000 bodies of the estimated 170,000 people killed on in the city were never located. (Steve Herman/VOA News)

Salmi Hardiyanti, now 24, points to the names of nine of her relatives who died in the tsunami. Their bodies have never been found. (Steve Herman/VOA News)

A fishing boat carried by the tsunami which came to rest atop a house. Fifty-six people took refuge in the boat from rising waters. (Steve Herman/VOA News)

The remains of a house, a decade later, in a village in Aceh that was swamped by the tsunami. (Steve Herman/VOA News)

The Baiturrahman Grand Mosque was one of the few structures in Banda Aceh which surived the 2004 tsunami relatively unscathed. (Steve Herman/VOA News)