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 ...

JAKARTA – Suffering through days without clean water or proper medical care, evacuees packed into emergency shelters across three provinces in the northern part of Sumatra are falling severely ill, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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Indonesia's government says it will summon eight companies over their suspected role in worsening the scale of floods and landslides in Sumatra. But environmental groups say the government is ...

Many logs became forces of destruction in Indonesia last week, in a sign that deforestation compounded the devastation wrought by a cyclone. Many logs became forces of destruction in Indonesia last ...

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 ...

JAKARTA: Indonesia will summon eight companies suspected of contributing to deadly flooding in North Sumatra’s Batang Toru watershed as part of efforts to trace the large number of logs swept away by ...

JAKARTA -- The death toll from heavy storms across three Indonesian provinces on Sumatra has jumped to more than 400 with a similar number still missing and 290,000 people evacuated as the impact of ...