Overview
- In the latest counts, deaths rose to about 1,770 across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam, including 883 in Indonesia and 607 in Sri Lanka, with hundreds still missing.
- Sri Lanka announced payments of up to 10 million rupees to relocate and rebuild homes and 1 million rupees per death or permanent disability, as the IMF considers an extra $200 million and reconstruction needs of $6–7 billion.
- Aceh’s governor warned of starvation in remote Indonesian villages cut off by washed-out roads and deep mud, with forecasters predicting more heavy rain in Aceh and North Sumatra.
- Indonesia moved against environmental drivers by revoking 20 logging licences covering 750,000 hectares and halting upstream palm oil, mining and power-plant activities in flood-hit Sumatran watersheds.
- Fresh landslide warnings and continuing downpours are slowing recovery, with Sri Lanka reporting more than 71,000 homes damaged, nearly 5,000 destroyed and around 150,000 people still in shelters.