Jakarta Post: Japan to remind Indonesia of tsunami with wave-high poles
Japan will build memorial poles in Aceh as high as the tsunami waves that ravaged the Indonesian province in 2004 in a bid to remind residents of the dangers, a researcher said Monday. About 85 concrete poles will be erected this year across Aceh, which was hardest hit by the Dec. 26 tsunami that killed more than 220,000 people around the Indian Ocean. "Tsunami victims seem to be hoping to forget about the disaster as soon as possible, but I would say they shouldn't," said Hirokazu Iemura, a professor of earthquake engineering at Japan's Kyoto University who proposed the plan. "They should learn to cope with the risks in their everyday lives, keeping in mind what happened there," he said. The design is yet to be finalized, but the poles will likely also carry inspirational messages.
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