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About 1.4 million hectares of forest cover have been cleared across Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra between 2016 and 2025 to make way for plantations and mining, according to the environmental group Walhi. The areas hardest-hit by floods and landslides last week were degraded watersheds.
President Prabowo Subianto visited flood- and landslide- hit areas in northern Sumatra on the sixth day after the disaster, promising to address urgent food and fuel shortages as thousands face dwindling supplies and the growing threat of hunger, while damaged roads continue to hamper relief efforts.
The death toll surged 435 on Sunday, up from 303 on Saturday, official data uploaded on a government website showed, as officials compiled reports of casualties and damage pouring in from the western island of Sumatra, where three provinces had been devastated by landslides and floods after the rains.
Tropical Cyclone Senyar, which formed over the Malacca Strait, reached Sumatra’s mainland on Wednesday, unleashing extreme rainfall and strong winds that triggered severe flash floods and landslides across Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra.
