The tsunami of December 2004 brought incalculable destruction and loss to Aceh. At the same time, it brought international symphaty and aid on an unprecedented scale, along with new pressures for peace...
Sumatra is a vast and understudied island with a population of 43 million people divided into a variety of ethnic groups. Apart for William Marsden’s great work of 1783, few serious works deal with Sumatra’s history, and even fewer attempt to describe that histort as a coherent whole...