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 ...

Nearly three weeks after a cyclone ripped through northern Sumatra, killing more than 1,000 people, the Indonesian region remains devastated. Towns are cut off and more than 100,000 people have been ...

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 ...

Indonesia is confronting its deadliest natural disaster in more than two decades as floods and landslides ravage Sumatra, overwhelming local authorities and prompting scrutiny of how President Prabowo ...

JAKARTA, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Indonesia's Sumatra island will require 51.82 trillion rupiah ($3.11 billion) in reconstruction and recovery funds following a series of deadly floods, senior government ...

As the floodwaters in Sumatra started to recede, the full extent of the devastation became painfully clear: more than 800 lives lost, over 3.2 million people affected and entire communities left ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) has recorded an increase in deaths from the floods in Sumatra on Sunday, December 7, 2025. Based on the emergency handling geoportal ...

As fevers, typhoid and skin infections surge among survivors of last week’s deadly floods, the authorities are stepping up medical outreach and disease-prevention efforts across Aceh, North Sumatra ...

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Military builds 'Bailey bridges' in Sumatra to facilitate aid distribution Residents report severe shortage of clean water Death toll from last week's cyclone reaches 867 ACEH TAMIANG, Indonesia, Dec ...

In this photo released by Indonesia’s disaster management agency BNPB, workers clear a road severed by landslides in North Sumatra, Indonesia, Dec. 1, 2025. Credit: Facebook/Badan Nasional ...

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