Satellite images show the scale of destruction from Asia floods

In Indonesia, astatine slightest 961 people person been killed successful Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra portion 293 are inactive missing, Indonesia's National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) reported precocious connected Sunday.

Some 5,000 radical person been injured crossed the 3 provinces, and much than 1 cardinal radical person been displaced. More than 156,000 homes person been damaged and 975,075 radical are successful impermanent shelters.

"Everything is lacking, particularly aesculapian personnel. We are abbreviated connected doctors," Muzakir Manaf, politician of Indonesia's Aceh province, told reporters precocious connected Sunday.

“People are not dying from the flood, but from starvation. That’s however it is.”

Illegal logging, often linked to the planetary request for palm oil - on with wood nonaccomplishment owed to mining, plantations and fires - person some exacerbated the catastrophe successful Sumatra.

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto said the state plans to bargain 200 helicopters successful 2026, for defence and earthy catastrophe preparedness.