A 14-year-old Indonesian girl has been reunited with her family ten years after being given up for dead in the 2004 tsunami.<br /><br />Raudhatul Jannah was separated from her family when flood water inundated their home in Meulaboh in the mainly Muslim Aceh province.<br /><br />She says she floated on a plank with her brother and was later picked up from the water. Her brother, however, was no-where to be seen.<br /><br />She was found nearly 130 kilometres away south<br />and raised by an elderly woman whom the family has invited to come and live with them. <br /><br />“As a mother I know how that feels, they have been living together for ten years and I can’t just separate them I need to care about how they feel,” said Raudhatul’s mother Jamaliah.<br /><br />The family has no plan to conduct a DNA test to verify her identity as they are sure she is the daughter they lost, based on her childhood photos.<br /><br />Aceh was the closest point to the epicentre of the Indian Ocean tsunami where at least 170, 000 were killed.
