Abstract
The 2011 Tohoku earthquake unfortunately revealed that we had learned little about disaster preparedness from the 2004 Sumatra tsunami. This fact naturally makes us wonder about many questions. How can we make the most of disaster records to prepare for future disasters? Still today, many disaster victims are suffering from the devastation in and outside their home towns. Can disaster records really record what they think, feel and experience about the disaster? What can we do to be better prepared for gigantic disasters and to work better with disaster victims? There are no easy answers, but some hints to solve these questions can be found by examining the disaster-related efforts in Aceh, Indonesia a country that experienced a gigantic disaster years before Japan. This paper discusses Aceh's seven-year effort in disaster management particularly through disaster education.
