Mohd Riswan, 72, remembers his father telling him bedtime stories about tsunamis, called smong in the local Devayan language spoken on Indonesia’s Simeulue island. “Listen to this story,” he ...

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But even as Simeulue's younger generation embraced modern influences, smong kept up. Local artists began creating pop songs in Devayan, one of the island's local languages.

Lecturer at Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Director of Research Center for Social and Cultural Studies (PRISB) Universitas Syiah Kuala, and Researcher at ...