She says the Aceh tsunami survivors can relate to the Padang earthquake victims on a personal level and help them deal with their loss and grief.

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Fan says the Aceh relief effort is motivated in part by gratitude for all the help Aceh received after the tsunami.

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And a quake and tsunami off Aceh in 2004 led to more than 200,000 deaths around the Indian Ocean.

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Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, the boss of Indonesia's new REDD agency, was previously in charge of rebuilding Aceh after the tsunami.

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Aceh, the tsunami's epicentre, had huge problems because the destruction was worst there, the province had been riven by rebellion in the 1990s and 180 different NGOs were operating there at one point.

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Berman also covered the Indian Ocean tsunami from Banda Aceh, Indonesia, and the steroids scandal in American sports.

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