As many as 27 ambassadors are set to attend a ceremony commemorating the 10th anniversary of the deadly earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts of Aceh province on December 26th, 2004, the Indonesian news agency, ANTARA News, has reported.
Head of the Aceh Provincial Culture and Tourism Office, Reza Pahlevi, said on Friday that the ambassadors had confirmed their plans to attend the event, which will take place at Blang Padang Square in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh.
The 27 ambassadors expected to attend the ceremony represent friendly countries that assisted Aceh in its post-tsunami rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts, he said.
In addition, representatives from 34 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are also set to attend the event, Pahlevi confirmed.
"The NGOs and donor countries will be participants in the disaster commemoration at Blang Padang," he noted.
According to the head of the provincial tourism office, the Aceh government expressed its gratitude to the national and international communities that assisted the province in the post-tsunami rehabilitation and reconstruction phases.
Aceh bore the brunt of the 8.9 Richter scale magnitude undersea earthquake and the tsunami that followed on December 26th, 2004, which left more than 200,000 people dead