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View all search resultsAceh still suffers from blackouts, evacuees lack clean water supplies
Difficult terrains make it more difficult for PT PLN workers to resume electritiy supply to several villages because they cannot reach those villeages due to collapsed roads and damaged bridges.
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Bank damage: An aerial image of Pasir Putih village on Jan. 31, 2026, by a river whose banks were heavily eroded after flooding in Gayo Lues regency, Aceh. The village, home to 157 families, was cut off after a bridge collapsed and electricity has yet to be restored following November 2025 flash floods and landslides. (Antara/Raisan Al Farisi)
Apriadi Gunawan
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Villagers in 16 villages affected by flash floods and landslides in Aceh have continued to suffer power blackouts and clean water shortages, even though the natural disaster struck more than two months ago.
Aceh Hydrometeorological Disasters Mitigation Command Post spokesman Murthalamuddin said that electricity has not resumed in several regencies because many power distribution facilities were still damaged by flash floods and landslides.
He said that blackouts mostly happened in remote villages in mountainous areas, with most infrastructure in those villages destroyed, making it difficult for workers to reach them.
“Workers are still finding it difficult to bring electricity to those villages because access roads there are still damaged,” he told The Jakarta Post on Monday.
“A lot of destroyed infrastructure is yet to be repaired.”
