Overview of Aceh

 Aceh who first called Aceh Darussalam ( 1511 - 1959 ) once referred to hereinafter as the Special Region ( 1959 - 2001 ) and Aceh ( 2001 - 2009 ) and became the province of Aceh( 2009 - present ) is a province of the western Indonesia . Aceh has set up its own autonomy, in contrast to most other provinces in Indonesia, for reasons of history .  The area is bordered by the Bay of Bengal to the north, the Indian Ocean to the west, the Strait of Malacca in the east, and North Sumatra in southeast and south.

Aceh is the capital of Banda Aceh . Ports is Malahayati-Krueng Ulee Lheue, Sabang , Lhokseumawe and Langsa . Aceh was the region worst hit by the earthquake and tsunami December 26, 2004 . Some places on the coast completely destroyed. The hardest was Banda Aceh , Aceh Besar , AcehJaya , West Aceh , Singkil and Simeulue .

Aceh has a wealth of natural resources such as petroleum and natural gas . Natural resources it is located in North Aceh and East Aceh . Aceh is also famous for its forest resources, which lies along the line of the Bukit Barisan , from Kutacane , Southeast Aceh , Seulawah , Aceh Besar , until Ulu Masen in Aceh Jaya . A national park, the Gunung Leuser National Park (TNGL) are also found in Southeast Aceh .

Ethnic groups in Indonesia

There are more than 300 different ethnic groups or ethnic groups in Indonesia. The Javanese are the largest ethnic group in Indonesia with 41% of the total population. The Javanese mostly gathered in the island of Java, but millions of people have transmigrated and dispersed to various islands in the archipelago even migrate like to Malaysia and Suriname. Spare Sundanese, ethnic Malays, and Madurese Tribe is the next largest group in the country this. Many remote tribes, especially in Kalimantan and Papua, have had only a small population of hundreds of people. Most of the local languages ​​in the family group Austronesian languages​​, though a large number of tribes in Papua belonging to the Papuan or Melanesian language family. Based on data from Census 2000, the ethnic Chinese Indonesia amounted to approximately 1% of the total population. Indonesia's ethnic Chinese residents speak various Chinese dialects, most language Hokkien and Hakka .

The division of ethnic groups in Indonesia was not absolute and it is not clear due to migration, the mixing of cultures, and mutual influence, as an example of some people argue Banten and Cirebon is a separate tribe with a particular dialect as well, while the side while others argue that they are simply sub-Javanese ethnic tribe as a whole. Similarly Bedouin tribe that while the parties consider them as part of a whole tribe Sunda . Another example is the mixing of ethnic Betawi tribe which is a result ethnic mixing various tribes of the archipelago and the settlers both the Chinese and the Arabs who came to live in Batavia in the colonial era.