From the Ground Up: Perspectives on Post-Tsunami and Post-Conflict Aceh

✍ Scribed by R. Michael Feener (editor); Anthony J. S. Reid (editor); Patrick Daly (editor)

• Publisher: ISEAS Publishing
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 293
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The tsunami that struck a dozen countries around the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004 evoked international sympathy on a scale beyond any previous natural disaster. The international relief effort broke all records both in scale and diversity, with seven billion U.S. dollars donated from all over the world through public and private agencies for Sumatra alone. Simply as a reconstruction effort, therefore, the disbursement of those funds and the rebuilding of housing, infrastructure, and economy posed major national and international challenges. However this was not simply a reconstruction effort. Aceh at that time was a war zone, with Indonesia’s military engaged in a major operation to crush a separatist rebellion that had been simmering since 1976. Even though the funds had been donated for tsunami relief, any real reconstruction of Aceh had to consider the impact of the conflict on the well-being of the population, as well as governance and administrative capacities. This volumes serves the purpose not only of discussing some of the lessons of the Aceh reconstruction and peace processes, but also of maintaining critical links between Aceh and the international community after the initial tranches of aid expire.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
PREFACE
List of Figures and Tables
The Contributors
GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION: Unpacking the Challenges of Post-2004 Aceh
1 THE SUNDA MEGATHRUST: Past, Present and Future
Part I. Reconstruction Efforts
2 Disaster Recovery: An International Humanitarian Challenge?
3. Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and Development (LRRD) to Social Protection: Lessons from the Early Tsunami Response in Aceh
4 CULTURAL HERITAGE AND COMMUNITY RECOVERY IN POST-TSUNAMI ACEH
5 Managing POST-DISASTER: Reconstruction Finance International Experience in Public Financial Management
6. Between Custom and Law: Protecting the Property Rights of Women after the Tsunami Disaster in Aceh
7 Factors Determining the Movements of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Aceh
8 Aceh’s Forests as an Asset for Reconstruction?
Part II. Conflict Resolution
9 Managing Risk. Aceh, the Helsinki Accords and Indonesia’s Democratic Development
10 Making Peace Agreements Effective: The Aceh Monitoring Mission Experience
11 Justice and the Aceh Peace Process
12 Managing Peace in Aceh: The Challenge of Post-Conflict Peace Building
Index