AT the time of writing, more than 900 lives have been lost in the November 2025 floods in Sumatra, and many more people remain missing. Entire valleys have been reshaped by violent torrents of water ...

MEDAN, North Sumatra – The Medan city administration in North Sumatra has cancelled its planned New Year’s Eve celebrations following public backlash, as the region continues to recover from ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Three weeks after devastating flash floods and landslides, residents in Aceh are raising white flags along the Trans-Sumatra highway, symbolizing their distress. These flags are ...

ACEH: Residents of Indonesia’s Aceh province have put up white flags to signal they can no longer cope with conditions three weeks after Cyclone Senyar battered three provinces in Sumatra. More than 1 ...

JAKARTA/MEDAN – The death toll from the floods that hit northern and western parts of Sumatra late last month has reached more than 1,000 people over the weekend, as regions extended their emergency ...

Cyclone Senyar was an unusually rare event for Sumatra, but the scale of destruction cannot be explained by weather alone. Decades of deforestation, mining, plantations, and peat drainage left ...

A Basarnas rescuer searches for victims of a landslide and flash flood in Sipange subdistrict, Tukka, Central Tapanuli, North Sumatra, December 9, 2025. Antara/Muhammad Adimaja. TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - ...

Indonesia is facing renewed calls to curb deforestation and tighten oversight of forest concessions after a rare tropical cyclone tore across Sumatra, unleashing floods and landslides that have killed ...

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JAKARTA: Indonesia's national disaster agency sharply increased the death toll from catastrophic floods and landslides on the island of Sumatra on Monday (Dec 1), with at least 604 people reported ...

According to the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), some 402 people were still missing after initial rescue efforts were hampered by a lack of heavy equipment. Authorities in Indonesia on ...

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