Overview
- The national disaster agency said 23 people have been rescued alive, two bodies have been recovered and 21 people remain unaccounted for.
- The landslide struck on Thursday night, damaging or burying dozens of houses across three villages in Cilacap, Central Java.
- Unstable terrain is slowing operations, and authorities have brought in heavy machinery alongside manual and extraction tools.
- Basarnas released footage showing teams searching the rubble as efforts continued into Friday morning.
- Indonesia’s weather agency had issued an extreme weather warning earlier in the week, with the event occurring during the wet-season period that has also seen deadly floods and landslides in Papua.