Land Archives Crisis After the Flood Disaster in Aceh Tamiang Regency
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https://doi.org/10.24252/kah.v14i2a7Keywords:
Land archives, Archives restoration, Archives managementAbstract
Background: The flood disaster in Aceh Province in late 2025 severely affected Land Office operations, with the Aceh Tamiang Regency Land Office hit hardest, floodwaters submerged the archives building for several days, damaging all vital records, including land books, measurement letters, and warkah (documents).
Purpose: The study analyzes the impact of the disaster on land archives, the evacuation process, and the restoration of these records as well as draws policy lessons for mitigating future land archive risks.
Methods: Qualitative methods were used, including observation, interviews, document study, and analysis of official reports on post-disaster archive management, covering the period from December 2025 to March 6, 2026.
Findings: Damage to the vital records disrupted land services and required complex, time-consuming recovery efforts.
Originality/Value: The case underscores the importance of building a disaster mitigation-based land archive protection and preservation system through media transfer and/or digitization of archives, improved archive storage standards, and strengthened post-disaster archive management capacity.
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