The people of Banda Aceh were reeling from the the force of an almighty earthquake when panic struck. Word spread that a giant wall of water was heading toward them.
These dramatic pictures have never previously been broadcast.
The tape of this footage has only just been recovered. Here a man being swept along by a massive tide of debris has to duck under a bridge. Another man follows close behind.
The cameraman races across the bridge to where others are being plucked from the water. This man, stripped to his underpants by the sheer force of the tide is lucky to be alive.
Others though did not make it. People pick their way through the debris in desperate search for their loved ones….The shock of the tsunami’s aftermath is etched on their dazed faces….
This is the man who filmed these extraordinary images. Hasyim is a wedding cameraman by profession. He took me back to the bridge where he filmed. The memories are still vivid.
UPSOT……
“its amazing that they survived…….Maybe god help them to survive……”
On that same day last year, Hasyim filmed at Banda Aceh’s mosque. Those extraordinary pictures made his name. He captured the moment the water first came surging along this street….. hasyim risked his life to film the raging torrent, 10 feet high,as it swept past him.
He then gave the tape to Metro television, one of Indonesia’s national broadcasters , and it’ been shown around the world ever since.
The mosque was hasyim’s vantage point and also the refuge for many who escaped. 12 months on I met up again at the mosque with Hasyim and a friend of his who had also been there when the tsunami struck
SOT of cameraman friend
Hasyim took me to the place which has become the biggest memorial to Banda Aceh’s tsunami dead.
Many of the victims of that day ended up here, buried anonymously in a mass grave…..Incredibly there are nearly 47,000 bodies under this earth. In the face of such loss hasyim has found strength in his faith…
Hasyim has dark memories of the trucks dumping bodies here by the dozen.
SOT.,. hasyim tells story of trucks
Hashyim thinks seven relatives he lost could be among the bodies buried here, but he cant be sure.
It was all very different a year ago when Hasyim went with his family to the beach in banda Aceh.
He filmed these happy scenes just a few days before the tsunami struck.
Now the beach is almost deserted. It has also moved
The rocks mark where beach used to be.
Most People are still too afraid to return to the beach
Hasyim wanted to show me where his own house was destroyed. A year his neighbourhood shows little sign of recovery.
Hasyim was unable to make the journey here for months after the tsunami, such was the chaos…..
UPSOT….This was the house?
Hashim…………Yes this it
All that is left of his house is the floor - and the toilet.
Hasyim’s neighbour Kostanoodi is one of the lucky few in this area. He’s rebuilding his house with a grant from the United Nations. Like so many others Hasyim is still waiting. UN Habitat has yet to complete a single house in Banda Aceh.
UPSOT>>>>>.
Hasyim…………..Not many NGO come here. For Me and my family we have to start again its impossible now.
Even though the reconstruction has been painfully slow some people have managed to make a new start. We went to visit a suburb of Banda Aceh where the British charity Oxfam has a building programme, funded by donations from the UK. They are advertising their presence with their difficult-to-miss bright green toilets.
There are some empty plots here where some families never returned.
After a number of logisitical delays, including scarcity of builing materials. this village is now almost rebuilt.
But Hashim is curious to know why people in most areas of Banda Aceh families are still homeless.
Doug Keatinge:
UPSOT if I told you hasyim that our material is stuck in Medan maybe you would forgive us for being slow.
SOT……..Hasyim……..its been very slow. Many people needs a house…
And It’s because the rebuilding programme has been so slow that a year on, Hasyim and ten of his extended family are still crammed into his brother’s house….
Over the last year he’s come to believe what he witnessed on that day contained a message from God
SOT>>>.I believe let me survive and all the world the picture of how God’s power is unlimited and chance to open the eyes of people to see his power. All people have to believe his power…………..
Hasyim considers that compared to some his family are fortunate. At least they are still together.
These dramatic pictures have never previously been broadcast.
The tape of this footage has only just been recovered. Here a man being swept along by a massive tide of debris has to duck under a bridge. Another man follows close behind.
The cameraman races across the bridge to where others are being plucked from the water. This man, stripped to his underpants by the sheer force of the tide is lucky to be alive.
Others though did not make it. People pick their way through the debris in desperate search for their loved ones….The shock of the tsunami’s aftermath is etched on their dazed faces….
This is the man who filmed these extraordinary images. Hasyim is a wedding cameraman by profession. He took me back to the bridge where he filmed. The memories are still vivid.
UPSOT……
“its amazing that they survived…….Maybe god help them to survive……”
On that same day last year, Hasyim filmed at Banda Aceh’s mosque. Those extraordinary pictures made his name. He captured the moment the water first came surging along this street….. hasyim risked his life to film the raging torrent, 10 feet high,as it swept past him.
He then gave the tape to Metro television, one of Indonesia’s national broadcasters , and it’ been shown around the world ever since.
The mosque was hasyim’s vantage point and also the refuge for many who escaped. 12 months on I met up again at the mosque with Hasyim and a friend of his who had also been there when the tsunami struck
SOT of cameraman friend
Hasyim took me to the place which has become the biggest memorial to Banda Aceh’s tsunami dead.
Many of the victims of that day ended up here, buried anonymously in a mass grave…..Incredibly there are nearly 47,000 bodies under this earth. In the face of such loss hasyim has found strength in his faith…
Hasyim has dark memories of the trucks dumping bodies here by the dozen.
SOT.,. hasyim tells story of trucks
Hashyim thinks seven relatives he lost could be among the bodies buried here, but he cant be sure.
It was all very different a year ago when Hasyim went with his family to the beach in banda Aceh.
He filmed these happy scenes just a few days before the tsunami struck.
Now the beach is almost deserted. It has also moved
The rocks mark where beach used to be.
Most People are still too afraid to return to the beach
Hasyim wanted to show me where his own house was destroyed. A year his neighbourhood shows little sign of recovery.
Hasyim was unable to make the journey here for months after the tsunami, such was the chaos…..
UPSOT….This was the house?
Hashim…………Yes this it
All that is left of his house is the floor - and the toilet.
Hasyim’s neighbour Kostanoodi is one of the lucky few in this area. He’s rebuilding his house with a grant from the United Nations. Like so many others Hasyim is still waiting. UN Habitat has yet to complete a single house in Banda Aceh.
UPSOT>>>>>.
Hasyim…………..Not many NGO come here. For Me and my family we have to start again its impossible now.
Even though the reconstruction has been painfully slow some people have managed to make a new start. We went to visit a suburb of Banda Aceh where the British charity Oxfam has a building programme, funded by donations from the UK. They are advertising their presence with their difficult-to-miss bright green toilets.
There are some empty plots here where some families never returned.
After a number of logisitical delays, including scarcity of builing materials. this village is now almost rebuilt.
But Hashim is curious to know why people in most areas of Banda Aceh families are still homeless.
Doug Keatinge:
UPSOT if I told you hasyim that our material is stuck in Medan maybe you would forgive us for being slow.
SOT……..Hasyim……..its been very slow. Many people needs a house…
And It’s because the rebuilding programme has been so slow that a year on, Hasyim and ten of his extended family are still crammed into his brother’s house….
Over the last year he’s come to believe what he witnessed on that day contained a message from God
SOT>>>.I believe let me survive and all the world the picture of how God’s power is unlimited and chance to open the eyes of people to see his power. All people have to believe his power…………..
Hasyim considers that compared to some his family are fortunate. At least they are still together.