Aceh, the most endangered province of Sumatra Island, is close to international sea transport routes. In fact, at the time the Dutch established a kolen station in Sabang City. Aceh is one of the busiest ports in the world. The ship's activities in this exclusive economic zone are stretched, until now.
Aceh is also known as a disaster prone area that threatens its inhabitants. Nearly 200,000 people died in the 2004 earthquake and tsunami disaster. Facilities and facilities were destroyed.
The tsunami also destroyed the newly established SAR office building in 2004, just meters from Ule Lhee beach. The head of the SAR office, Mohammad Ramli, Karmen Tondang, the administration department, and Sofyan SAR office staff, died in that heartbreaking tragedy.
In the midst of the tsunami disaster, the SAR office is still operating and the SAR team continues to provide assistance to the victims, who are still buried in ruins and evacuate the dead.
Now, SAR Banda Aceh already has a new office located at Jalan Sultan Malikul Saleh number 108 Lhong Raya-Banda Aceh. In 2014, the Banda Aceh SAR office became class A, with 101 personnel, stationed on SAR Post and Sar ships. Sar Banda Aceh is also equipped with a number of complete equipment.
Aceh is one of the most threatened areas of disaster, such as earthquakes, floods, landslides with extreme waves, tides, forest land fires, hurricanes that can be dangerous.
To address the impact of disasters, SAR offices are able to establish coordination and control along with the cross sector in Aceh in providing assistance to disaster victims.
the Banda Aceh SAR office is present in every SAR operation conducted against aircraft accidents, ship accidents, disasters, and human hazards.
