A Little Bit About Aceh

Saturday, September 24, 2011



Aceh (pronounced ah-chay) is an autonomous territory of Indonesia, located on the northern tip of Sumatra island. Aceh is where Islam was first established in Southeast Asia. In the seventeenth century the Sultanate of Aceh was the richest state, powerful and cultivated in the Straits of Malacca. Aceh was the nearest point of land to the epicenter of the earthquake of 2004, the vast Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami that devastated much of the west coast of the region, including Banda Aceh. With the help of the international community and the strong spirit of its inhabitants, Aceh was able to "build back better '. Most areas of Aceh are covered with forests, rich in economic products of oil and gas and other agricultural products.
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