In Aceh, the worst-hit province, many men have remarried, but it’s been tougher for women
Shortly before 8am on the morning of December 26, 2004, Ida Sabri, 42, was tidying her kitchen when she heard neighbours shouting hysterically outside. “The sea is coming,” they said. “Leave now!” When she left her house, the sky had turned dark, and then she saw a wave that gives her nightmares to this day. “It was higher than a telegraph pole,” she says, “and in the shape of a dragon that was rushing towards me.” As Sabri ran to escape, she turned to see “the dragon lower its head, then crash all around, breathing in houses, people and trees”.