Barely five months on the job as Acting Regent of West Aceh, Syahbudin B.P. has had to face very serious problems. The former Bureau Chief of the Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam provincial government had the formidable task of having to administer an area devastated by the December 26 earthquake and tsunami.

One-third of Meulaboh town, capital of West Aceh regency was destroyed. “Day and night I kept thinking of how I would rebuild this area,R