Overview
- Authorities report about 990 dead, more than 220 missing, and nearly 900,000 displaced after flash floods and landslides in northwest Sumatra.
- Indonesia has not declared a national emergency and says ministries, the military and the police will manage the response domestically.
- Foreign offers of rescue teams and relief from the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Iran and Oman, along with support from Japan, remain unaccepted.
- Aceh’s governor seeks a two‑week extension of emergency measures, citing an urgent need for medicines as skin and respiratory illnesses rise.
- Destruction to roads, bridges, schools and plantations is estimated at about $3.1 billion, with dozens of villages still cut off and more rain forecast.