Overview
- Indonesia’s disaster agency reported 961 dead, 293 missing and more than one million displaced across Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra, with at least 5,000 injured.
- Officials in Jakarta estimated 51.82 trillion rupiah (about $3.1bn) is needed for reconstruction, with temporary housing to precede permanent resettlement and President Prabowo ordering urgent bridge and dam repairs.
- Health services in Sumatra have been crippled, with facilities inundated by mud, medicines lost and shortages of doctors as disease cases rise, according to officials and eyewitness accounts.
- Sri Lanka’s confirmed toll rose to 635 with over two million affected, the army expanded its deployment to 38,500 personnel, and the government announced a recovery package including grants to relocate to safer land.
- Authorities opened probes into suspected illegal forest clearing in Indonesia’s flood zones, even as regional counts of recent storm-related deaths across Asia climbed past 1,800.