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Archipelago 3 months ago
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Calls grow for Indonesia to accept foreign disaster aid
With fatalities from the hydrometeorological disaster in Sumatra approaching 1,000 and numerous regions still struggling to receive aid, questions are growing over whether the government can manage the situation without international assistance.
Society 3 months ago
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Sumatra needs more than $3 billion in recovery funds after floods
The death toll from the cyclone-induced floods and landslides reached 950 as of Monday, with 274 people still missing, according to official data. The storms also killed about 200 people in southern Thailand and Malaysia.
Academia 3 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 3 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.
Politics 3 months ago
Military steps up relief efforts for flood-hit Sumatra; death toll above 860
The military has erected at least 10 portable bridges, called "Bailey bridges", in Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra provinces to help with the distribution of food and aid supplies to isolated residents, Major General Freddy Ardianzah told reporters on Friday.
Regulations 3 months ago
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Minister threatens to revoke firms' permits over Sumatra flooding
The Environment Ministry has launched an investigation into several firms suspected of contributing to the devastating disaster across northern Sumatra, while the minister has vowed not to spare any local administrations whose policies led to environmental degradation.
