Lessons Learned from Two Villages in the Tsunami Most Affected Area of Banda Aceh City; A Review of the Housing Reconstruction and the Current State of Village Development - Post-Tsunami Hazard: Reconstruction and Restoration - page 61

Banda Aceh

ACEH

N

Kilometers

Alue Deah Tengoh

0 330 660

Lambung

MEURAXA

N

Kilometers

ACEH BESAR

0 2 4

Fig. 5.1 Location of study, Lambung and Alue Deah Tengoh villages (shaded), Meuraxa sub-
district of Banda Aceh city

2004 recorded effects of the tsunami; and the image 2011 revealed the current state
condition (The pre-tsunami and post-tsunami images were accessed from the
archives of the GIS and Remote Sensing Development Center, Syiah Kuala
University with courtesy from ReGID Laboratory IRIDeS, Tohoku University and
BAPPEDA Banda Aceh city).

5.3 Results and Discussions

The results indicate the value of these two distinct approaches to housing recon-
struction in post-disaster Aceh in terms of the type of houses built, the village lay-
outs and the villages' current levels of development.

5.3.1 Housing Reconstruction Approach

The provision of housing for the survivors of the tsunami was the main task of the
reconstruction program led by Badan Rehabilitasi dan Rekonstruksi (BRR), which
attempted to coordinate 463 organizations (Masyrafah and McKeon 2008 ). Housing
type as defi ned by the BRR had to be of a minimum size of 36 square meters. The sheer