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View all search resultsFive of Bali’s nine cities and regencies have been hit by flooding since Dec. 11, the provincial Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) said, after days of persistent heavy rain triggered by cyclone seed 93S.
Head of the Medan Tourism Agency, Odi Aggia Batubara, said the proposed event, known as the Year-End Festival, sparked criticism from residents who viewed it as insensitive to the thousands of people still affected by the recent disasters.
President Prabowo Subianto has pledged to accelerate temporary housing construction and infrastructure repairs in West Sumatra during his fourth visit to disaster-hit regions in the northern part of Sumatra Island.
The judiciary is our last line of defense in driving an urgent rethink of Indonesia's growth-centric policies, which are inherently unconstitutional, toward a mindset that embraces the strong sustainability approach.
The aid, donated by Acehnese communities living in Malaysia, remains stranded in Malaysia due to administrative hurdles and because the disaster has not been declared a national emergency, according to Aceh administration spokesperson Teuku Kamaruzzaman.
The flash floods and landslides that ravaged Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra should prompt far deeper scrutiny than they have so far received. While Cyclone Senyar intensified the rainfall, the scale of destruction reflects decades of unchecked ecological degradation that have left communities acutely exposed.
The death toll in the Sumatra floods and landslides has reached over 1,000 people over the weekend, as regional governments in the northwestern part of the island extend their emergency status and evacuees demand the central government to do more to help.