Overview
- Indonesia reports at least 18 deaths from multiple landslides in Central Java, with more than 30 people still missing in Cilacap and Banjarnegara.
- More than 500 Indonesian rescuers, 22 excavators and 18 sniffer dogs are operating in deep, unstable mud reported at 3–8 meters, complicating searches.
- BNPB has launched weather modification using about 3,000 kilograms of cloud‑seeding material to keep rain away from the search zones.
- Vietnam confirms at least eight deaths since the weekend, including six killed when a landslide struck a bus on the Khanh Le Pass; authorities report seven people missing.
- Floods in central Vietnam have inundated hundreds of homes, forced evacuations, stranded trains, closed schools affecting 26,000 students, raised waters again in Hoi An, and slowed coffee harvesting in Dak Lak as heavy rain persists.