The building of Museum of tsunami, which features the horrified impact of the catastrophe four years ago in Aceh on the northern tip of Sumatra island and Nias Island of North Sumatra, will be complete this month, a local media said here Thursday.
Over 170,000 people were killed and more than a half million other made homeless after a tsunami triggered by strong quakes in Aceh province in December 2004. Not only in Indonesia, the tsunami also left hundreds of lives in other Asian countries, from Sri Lanka and India to Thailand, the Maldives and Indonesia.
About three months later, on March 28, 2005, another powerful quake struck Nias island of nearby North Sumatra province.
"We expect this museum can display the impact of tsunami," a deputy at the provincial administration Bastian Sihombing quoted by Antara News Wire as saying at Aceh.
The tragedy had led a global solidarity and encouraged countries to adopt preventing measures by installing tsunami early warning, including Indonesia.
Source: english.people.com.cn
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