REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANDA ACEH -- A total of 706,646 tourists comprising 28,714 foreigners and 662,815 domestic travelers visited the Tsunami Museum in 2017.
May 2017 was the peak month, with 118,693 tourist visits, Almuniza Kamal, coordinator of the Tsunami Museum, stated here Wednesday.
In December, 79,459 people had visited the museum.
Some two to six thousand people, mostly students, visit the museum on Sunday.
Tsunami Museum in Banda Aceh. Republika/Winda Destiana
On December 26, 2004, Aceh was devastated by an earthquake measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale and a subsequent gigantic tsunami that claimed the lives of at least 250 thousand people and displaced nearly one million others.
Thousands of Aceh residents offered prayers for the victims of the 2004 tsunami at the Ulee Lheue mass grave, Meuraxa Sub-district, on December 24, 2017.
Aminullah Usman, mayor of the Banda Aceh municipality, participated in mass prayers held to commemorate the tragedy that struck 13 years ago.
Rohani, a local inhabitant, noted that she always took part in the prayers annually, as she is certain that several of her family members, killed in the natural disaster, were buried in the mass grave.
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