But even as Simeulue's younger generation embraced modern influences, smong kept up. Local artists began creating pop songs in Devayan, one of the island's local languages. The catchy tunes ...

Mohd Riswan, 72, remembers his father telling him bedtime stories about tsunamis, called smong in the local Devayan language spoken on Indonesia’s Simeulue island. “Listen to this story,” he ...

Within 30 minutes, Simeulue became the first coastline in the world to experience the awesome force of the Dec. 26 tsunami. But only seven of the island's 75,000 people died, thanks to the stories ...

SIMEULUE ISLAND, Indonesia — The ground shook so hard, people couldn’t stand up when the massive earthquake rattled this remote Indonesian island, the closest inhabited land to the epicenter ...

Four people were slightly injured on Simeulue Island, off the coast of Aceh, the National Disaster Management Agency said Wednesday. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami watch for ...

New geophysical data show that fault slip during the March 2005 magnitude 8.7 (Mw) earthquake off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia (also referred to as the Simeulue-Nias earthquake ...

Bodhi Mani Risby-Jones, 23, from Noosa in Queensland's Sunshine Coast, was arrested at the Lantik Moon Beach Resort on Simeulue Island on Thursday. Police allege the carpenter assaulted a ...

The ABC understands that Mr Risby-Jones' parents are hoping to travel to Simeulue Island, where he is being held by police, to help negotiate a settlement with the fisherman and his family.

The Australian man accused of a violent, alcohol-fuelled rampage in Indonesia has had his detention extended until next month, as prosecutors decide whether to charge him with assault.

Lecturer at Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Director of Research Center for Social and Cultural Studies (PRISB) Universitas Syiah Kuala, and Researcher at ...