1. Medical Research Unit, School of Medicine, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia 2. Tropical Disease Center, School of Medicine, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia 3. Dept. of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia 4. Dept. of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia 5. Dept. of Statistics, ...

A 2005 peace deal brought an end to 30 years of secessionist conflict in Aceh, Indonesia. The Helsinki agreement included provisions to disarm fighters from the rebel GAM movement and to reintegrate them into society. Three-and-a-half years on, peace is holding in Aceh. Yet while the Aceh post-war story is broadly positive, the experience of delivering reintegration support to former combatants...

0486 On the morning of 26 December 2004, an earthquake of 9.2 on the Richter scale rocked the province of Aceh, Indonesia, followed soon after by a three-wave tsunami that smashed into the north, west, and topmost point of Aceh. The most heavily hit city, in terms of population, was Banda Aceh on the northernmost point of the Aceh peninsula, exposed between the north and west coast—two-thirds o...

OBJECTIVE Nine tsunami-affected districts in Aceh, Indonesia, were surveyed between February and August 2005 to characterize tsunami mortality. METHODS The surveys employed a two-stage cluster methodology with probability proportional to size sampling, and encompassed 1653 tsunami-displaced households with a pre-tsunami population of 10 063 individuals. FINDINGS Of the original pre-tsunami ...

BACKGROUND Physical restraint and confinement of the mentally ill (called pasung in Indonesia) is common in Aceh. In early 2010, the local government initiated a program called Aceh Free Pasung 2010. The main goal of the program is to release the mentally ill in the province from restraint and to provide appropriate medical treatment and care. The aim of the paper is to report the findings of a...

O 29 December 2006, the national elections commission, the Aceh Independent Elections Commission (KIP), announced the offi cial results of the governor elections in the Indonesian province of Aceh: Irwandi Yusuf, representative of the former rebel movement GAM, which fought for the independence of Aceh in a civil war lasting almost 30 years, emerged as victor. The elections on 11 December 2006,...

BACKGROUND The Indonesian region of Aceh was the area most severely affected by the earthquake and tsunami of 26 December 2004. Department of Health data reveal an upward trend of dengue cases in Aceh since the events of the tsunami. Despite the increasing incidence of dengue in the region, there is limited understanding of dengue among the general population of Aceh. The aim of this study was ...

As part of the project “Management of Georisk” (MANGEONAD) of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Hanover, high resolution shallow shear-wave reflection seismics was applied in the Indonesian province Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, North Sumatra in cooperation with the Government of Indonesia, local counterparts, and the Leibniz Institute for Applied Geosciences, Hanov...

Irvine H. Page used to say that the regular occurrence of constant amounts of a substance in the body is seldom without purpose and that organisms exhibit an inner economy and prudence by using one substance for several functions. Almost 50 years later, we are now challenged again to decipher just how complicated and how physiologically relevant are newly discovered biochemical pathways contrib...

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the species diversity of eels native to Aceh waters based on genetic data. Sampling was conducted in western coast waters of Aceh Province, Indonesia, from July to August 2016. Genomic DNA was extracted from the samples, a genomic region from the 5' region of the cox1 gene was amplified and sequenced, and this was then used to analyse genetic v...