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Academia 9 months ago

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Every hour counts: Mobilizing national capacity for disaster response

The President must declare the Sumatra floods and landslides a national disaster so the state can mobilize its vast emergency response apparatus and afterward, learn crucial lessons from this incident for future policies and actions.

Archipelago 9 months ago

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Fear of rising death toll grows as flood-hit Aceh regions remain isolated

The regions hit by the floods and landslides in Aceh remain cut off from the government’s rescue efforts and aid delivery because of infrastructural damages, prompting fear of a rising death toll in one of the worst-hit provinces in the disaster.

Editorial 9 months ago

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It is a national disaster

A national emergency declaration enables the deployment of all necessary state equipment and resources to the affected areas.

Archipelago 9 months ago

Death toll from Central Java landslides rises to 30

Some 21 people remain missing after landslides triggered by torrential rain struck the city of Cilacap last week and the Banjarnegara region over the weekend, the agency said.

Asia & Pacific 10 months ago

Philippine death toll tops 140 as typhoon heads towards Vietnam

Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least 142 people and left another 127 missing after unleashing devastating flooding across the central Philippines, official figures showed Thursday, as the storm headed towards Vietnam.

Asia & Pacific 10 months ago

Typhoon death toll climbs to 66 in Philippines

The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi in the Philippines climbed to 66 on Wednesday as residents of hardest-hit Cebu province began picking through homes and businesses devastated by the worst flooding in recent memory.

Asia & Pacific 1 year ago

Death toll rises in Thai-Cambodian clashes despite ceasefire call

Thailand and Cambodia clashed for a third day on Saturday, as the death toll from their bloodiest fighting in years rose to 33 and Phnom Penh called for an "immediate ceasefire.

Asia & Pacific 1 year ago

Signs of life detected in quake-struck Bangkok skyscraper, death toll tops 2,000

Signs of life were detected in the ruins of a skyscraper in Bangkok on Monday as efforts intensified to find people trapped three days after a massive earthquake in Southeast Asia that killed at least 2,000.

Archipelago 1 year ago

Rescuers search for survivors as Central Java landslide kills at least 17

Intense rainfall in a mountainous area near Pekalongan city sparked the landslide on Monday, collapsing bridges and burying cars and houses.

Archipelago 1 year ago

North Sumatra landslide death toll climbs to 27

Extreme weather is expected in Indonesia towards the end of 2024, as the La Nina phenomenon increases rainfalls across the tropical archipelago, the country's weather agency has warned.

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