TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian National Police (Polri) has installed a total of 76 Starlink units in the flood and landslide-affected areas of Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra as of Saturday, ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his condolences for the massive flood disaster in the northern region of Sumatra Island, Indonesia, which has claimed hundreds of ...

Cyclone Senyar was an unusually rare event for Sumatra, but the scale of destruction cannot be explained by weather alone. Decades of deforestation, mining, plantations, and peat drainage left ...

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Thu, December 4, 2025 Published on Dec. 2, 2025 Published on 2025-12-02T15:13:55+07:00 hmad Arifin Rambe, a food distributor in Padang Sidempuan, is just one of the small-scale traders who have been ...

Environmentalists say that the flash floods and landslides in Sumatra have been worsened by years of logging linked to mining operations. In this photo released by Indonesia’s disaster management ...

JAKARTA, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto said on Monday that activities in areas on Sumatra that were hit by deadly floods may return to normal in the next two to three ...

Cyclone Senyar hit South and Southeast Asian countries in late November. In Indonesia, the island of Sumatra, especially its northern parts, took the worst hit. The storm set off flash floods and ...

Some residents of the flood-hit island of Sumatra resorted to looting, seeking food and water to survive, authorities said on Sunday (November 30, 2025). The floods, which hit nearly a week ago, have ...

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