Last reviewed: 18-08-2008
The Indian Ocean tsunami caused huge death and destruction when it smashed into northern Indonesia, but it also helped galvanise a peace process to end one of Asia's longest-running wars.
- 15,000 killed in 30-year war
- Peace deal signed after tsunami
- Most displaced by war have now returned home
Rebels, who had been fighting for three decades for independence in the province of Aceh, signed a peace deal with the government eight months after the disaster. Challenges remain but progress has so far exceeded all expectations.
Around 15,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the war and hundreds of thousands uprooted. Most have now returned home.
| CIVIL WAR |
|
| Killed |
15,000 |
| Displaced 1999-2004 |
500,000-800,000 (estimate) (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre) |
| Number of displaced end-2006 |
30,000 - 150,000 (estimate) ) (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre) |
| TSUNAMI |
|
| Killed |
131,934 (Source: Indonesian Government) |
| Missing |
37,066 (Source: Indonesian Government) |
| Displaced or homeless |
500,000 (2005) |
| Lost their livelihoods |
600,000 (U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) |
| Estimated needs for long-term recovery |
$5-5.5 billion (U.N. Office of the Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery) |
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