Printed On 1 Dec 2025
Indonesia’s president tells survivors of final week’s devastating floods that assistance is arriving for these in want, as Asian governments scale up their responses to a catastrophe that has left greater than 1,000 lifeless in three international locations.
A whole bunch extra are lacking following flooding and landslides previously week, which killed at the least 502 individuals in Indonesia, 335 in Sri Lanka, and 176 in Thailand, authorities stated.
Some areas of Indonesia stay unreachable after the catastrophe broken roads and introduced down communication traces, with residents in affected areas counting on plane to ship provides.
Flooding displaced 290,700 individuals in North Sumatra, West Sumatra, and Aceh provinces, the Nationwide Catastrophe Administration Company (BNPB) stated.
Sri Lankan authorities stated on Monday that rescuers are nonetheless trying to find 366 lacking individuals. Practically 148,000 individuals are housed in non permanent shelters after being battered over the previous week by downpours that flooded properties, fields, and roads, and triggered landslides – primarily within the tea-growing central hill nation.
Authorities in Thailand labored to wash up streets and restore infrastructure, together with water and electrical energy, within the southern a part of the nation the place extreme flooding affected greater than 1.4 million households and three.8 million individuals, stated the federal government spokesperson Siripong Angkasakulkiat.
The Ministry of Inside will arrange public kitchens to offer freshly cooked meals for affected residents, he added.
