Tsunami Museum Aceh, Indonesia

Tsunami Museum

Aceh tsunami museum is a building that was built as a destination for the dark history of Aceh for the almighty disaster that hit Aceh at the end of 2004. This building is part of an important history and responsive to disasters that are always threatening. Meaning; This building is not only built as a mesium, but also serves as a rescue building. That is why this Aceh tsunami building was built with a height of four floors and access to many doors.

The tsunami museum holds a very complete visualization where people visiting this historical destination can know how catastrophic it would be. In front of the building is the longest large inscription with the inscription "Aceh Tsunami Building."

However, this building is an unforgettable form of dark history by the people of Aceh in particular and the international community in general. Inside there are spaces with their own functions. Each designed space has a visualization that reimagines how painful the terrible disaster was.

This building itself was designed by a famous architecture in Indonesia. Ridwan Kamil is the designer of this tsunami building. Ridwan himself claimed that to qualify as the official designer of the tsunami building, he had to fight hundreds of other architectures that came from the local as well.

For those of you who have never been here, you must know first the history of the great tsunami. That way you will feel more visualization of gloom, anxiety and loss. This is one of the magnificent buildings in Indonesia that covers grief and wounds.

History of tsunamis

That morning on December 24, 2004, on a clear Sunday, suddenly an earthquake measuring 8.9 on the richter scale shook the land of Aceh, the tipmost province in the country of Indonesia. That morning after the earthquake people came out calmly, as if nothing had happened. At that time no one expected that soon the beautiful country would be spat out by a huge tidal wave that took hundreds of thousands of lives.

After the earthquake recovered, people began to go out into the streets looking around for the damage caused by the quake. Five minutes later a rumble was heard from the bottom of the sea, from there waves as high as coconut shoots came chasing humans ferociously. The wave was like a lion chasing its prey.

History records in just a matter of seconds, the flood came and destroyed anyone who was there.

That dark history is still recorded in the dark history of this nation, where hundreds of lives had to be lost and shelter. Hundreds of souls fell, and were buried in mass graves, where hundreds of thousands of bodies had to be buried en masse in a single pit. To this day the tsunami mass grave is still visited by many people.

Visitors

Tsunami buildings are never empty of visitors, be it holidays or weekdays. From the variety of visitors who come very diverse, from local visitors to the area, visitors to the capital city and even visitors from various countries. The number of visitors here is caused by historical factors that are very attached in the memory of the People of Indonesia and the world community.

I was one of the visitors that day, besides I saw a lot of people who deliberately came to remember the building itself, I also saw officers at the destination who were very disciplined. All visitors are required to wear masks, if there is only one visitor who does not wear a mask then the visitor is not allowed to enter.

To enter this building is not free, every visitor must pay Rp: 5000. Non-paying visitors are not allowed in.

That morning I arrived at the tsunami building at about 9:00, when only a few visitors were seen. After the hours, I just realized that the visitors are getting more and more crowded.

This building has four floors, while the room is very much. That morning I deliberately surrounded the room one by one. I didn't forget to comment on the room one by one. Among the roars of space it has its own meaning. All the rooms there are very interesting, containing high estimates. And it's like I'm reading the history of the eternally sculpted past.

I'll take note of some of the space I remember. First there was an almost dark space, where the names of tsunami victims were written. I thought those names were an important symbol of memory and need to be remembered. Because in fact hundreds of millions of tsunami victims' names will not fit written on the narrow wall.

Next there is a room that stores miniature buildings. This room is on the second floor, where there is a table that stretches that houses a tsunami building on a small scale. The small building features its courtyard, as well as the writing of its gate. Inside a large glass the building was stored.

Then there's the visualization room on the third floor. This is the room that is most loved by many visitors. Because this room presents video footage of the tsunami event that year. It was a video that concerned the atmosphere before the waves came and post-wave.

All the videos are heart-wrenching, but it's a reality that's become a history for the life of the world. From the scattered recordings, the local government collects all the recordings and in one story that binds and is rooted in your memory.

Scrap metal and decoration

One of the unique ones in my opinion is some of the destroyed vehicles on display in the building. There I found a helicopter that had crashed and rusted. It was a helicopter hit by a flood coming from the sea. Half of the helicopter's face had been destroyed, which was left only for its body and back.

In other parts there were several destroyed motorcycle units, cars and miniature houses destroyed. Depicted through miniature houses deliberately made by builders where the partially bricked house has collapsed. It was the shape of a shattered wall.

Almost all forms of wounds are depicted here. It's both beautiful and painful. Surprisingly everyone who comes has to pay to see the pain.

Rocks of the outer country

The great tsunami opened the eyes of the world. Some even say this is not just a national disaster but this is an international disaster. I don't know for sure if such statements are excessive or not, the most important thing is that every disaster that befalls the whole world is a disaster and a humanitarian suffering.

Once the disaster that befell Aceh at that time, has awakened the sense of humanity of the world. The world came in droves to offer help. Aceh was not alone, almost all countries in the world were involved in reconstruction and rehabilitation in Aceh.

Millions of studies were conducted, discussed and witnessed in the field. Aceh at that time was like a child srbatang word but given by all humans who behaved friends.

The destroyed house was rebuilt. Public facilities were done and completed quickly until Aceh bounced back from the slump.

From this history we have always been very grateful to all the nations in the world who have helped Aceh for humanity. And the entire country involved petrified recorded and carved in the stone of history.

Aceh bounces back from the slump

Seventeen years have passed today. Aceh bounced back from the slump. Buildings in Aceh continue to run, the community is back on the move and creative. It seemed like that seventeen-year history was not a long-standing history, so close and deep.

Aceh has now begun to rise, active and most importantly its community never broke. People here accept what has befallen them with compassion.

In the afternoon, I left the historic building. In front of the building, precisely across the street spread Blang Padang field, witnesses of dark history. At the moment the pitch has been beautifully reimagined. People can sell there with joy. Various culinary is also peddled there.

I took one table and enjoyed the food provided there. I hope someday you can visit this place. Have you ever been here? [//]:# (!pinmapple 5.548423 lat 95.315532 long d3scr)

Under that shady tree, I imagined gloomy faces first, we sparkled.

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