An Indonesian family claims to have found their missing daughter a full decade
after she was swept away as a toddler by the 2004 tsunami and presumed dead.
“It’s a miracle from God,” mother Jamaliah, 42, told the Jakarta Globe. “When I
saw her, my heart was beating really fast … We couldn’t hold back our tears.”
Fleeing huge waves as the tsunami pummelled their village in West Aceh on 26
December 2004, Jamaliah said she and her husband, Septi Rangkuti, 52, ran for
safety but couldn’t escape the water. Her husband found a large wooden board
and put the two youngest children on top of it — daughter Raudhatul Jannah, then
4, and her brother Arif Pratama Rangkuti, 7.
Septi was separated from his children in the mayhem and the parents spent a
month looking for them after the tsunami receded, with no leads and, eventually,
no hope.
More than 170,000 people in Aceh, and tens of thousands of others in other
countries around the Indian Ocean, were killed by the Boxing Day tragedy.
The couple moved house with their one surviving son and carried on with their
lives, expecting to never find their missing children — until in June Jamaliah’s
brother spotted a girl who looked like missing daughter Raudhatul.
He asked local villagers about the girl and discovered that she had been orphaned
by the tsunami. Swept from Aceh all the way out to a remote island south-west of
the province, she was rescued by a local fisherman and taken back to the
fisherman’s house, where he spent the last decade raising her as “Wenni” with his
ageing mother.
“It’s a miracle from God,” Jamaliah told the paper, describing how she and her
husband visited the girl in late June to confirm the rumour.
“The girl’s face resembles mine,” she added, claiming that she was willing to take
a DNA test to confirm the girl’s identity. “Maybe because there was a strong
connection, when I hugged her, she hugged me back and felt very comfortable in
my embrace.”
Daughter Raudhatul returned home to live in West Aceh with her parents on
Wednesday. After 10 years living apart, mother Jamaliah said she is building a
strong relationship with the girl’s foster parents, who are very happy that she
found her “supposed birth parents”.
But the arrival of Raudhatul may bring even more good news. The girl, now 14,
says that she and her older brother Arif, who is still missing, both survived the
tsunami and ended up together on Banyak Island. But the girl was taken away by
one fisherman, and the brother by another man, leading the parents to believe
their son – also presumed dead for the past decade – may be out there too.
“My instinct tells me he’s still alive,” she says of her son. “We’ll go there soon to
find [him].”

Source>> http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/08/indonesian-family-finds-daughter-swept-away-in-2004-tsunami

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