Overview
- Indonesia’s disaster agency reports 1,006 dead, 217 missing and more than 5,400 injured in Sumatra, with about 1.2 million people sheltering in temporary sites.
- Authorities say aid deliveries by land, sea and air are increasing and temporary shelters are being built, though some isolated areas remain hard to reach.
- President Prabowo Subianto visited affected districts, pledged to deploy state resources for recovery, and the government is preparing debt relief for survivors.
- Officials estimate reconstruction at 51.82 trillion rupiah (about US$3 billion) and have not requested international assistance, while several mining and palm oil operations are being suspended for potential links to the flooding.
- A World Weather Attribution analysis finds extreme rainfall has intensified significantly in the Malacca Strait and Sri Lanka regions, with impacts worsened by deforestation and rapid urbanisation and with precise attribution limited by other climate drivers and data gaps.