Tapaktuan
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Tapaktuan, a a beautiful town in the south west of the special territory (daerah istimewa) of Aceh on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Tapaktuan is south of the town Meulaboh, that was very near the epicenter of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. Tapaktuan was largely spared the full impact of the Tsunami.
Tapaktuan is capital of the district of South Aceh and is populated largely by "Aneuk Jamee" people descendant from Minang migrants who moved into the area some two centuries ago to cultivate pepper. Although the Aneuk Jamee speak a dialect of Minang, they have assimilated the matrilineal Minang customs with the Acehnese adat.
See also: Meulaboh, Calang and Teunom (nearby coastal towns).
References: See The Fourth Circle: A political ecology of Sumatra's rainforest frontier by John F McCarthy (Stanford University Press, 2006).
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