Overview
- Rescue teams have pulled 23 people alive as of Friday morning, according to National Disaster Management Agency spokesman Abdul Muhari.
- Landslides hit dozens of homes in three villages in Cilacap district on Thursday evening after several days of heavy rain.
- Operations are ongoing with excavators, extraction tools and manual digging to reach buried structures and difficult terrain.
- Unstable ground conditions are hindering progress, prompting the use of heavy equipment to assist access and safety.
- Indonesia’s meteorology agency issued an extreme-weather alert earlier this week, flagging heightened flood and landslide danger across multiple regions.