Indonesia's disaster teams are hunting for around 400 people still unaccounted for after a freak tropical cyclone dumped catastrophic rainfall on Sumatra about a week back. More than 440 bodies have been recovered, with entire villages getting buried under mudslides or washed away completely. Humanitarian supplies are trickling in by boat and helicopter, but some remote spots haven't seen any relief yet, and desperate residents have been raiding stores for food and water just to make it through.
The hardest-hit zones are in Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra, where thousands of buildings ended up underwater and whole communities got cut off from the outside world. Elon Musk jumped in offering free Starlink internet to help with emergency comms. The flooding disaster isn't just hitting Indonesia either, as Thailand logged at least 170 deaths, the Philippines saw over 200 people die this month, and Sri Lanka counted 193 fatalities from similar weather chaos.
The hardest-hit zones are in Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra, where thousands of buildings ended up underwater and whole communities got cut off from the outside world. Elon Musk jumped in offering free Starlink internet to help with emergency comms. The flooding disaster isn't just hitting Indonesia either, as Thailand logged at least 170 deaths, the Philippines saw over 200 people die this month, and Sri Lanka counted 193 fatalities from similar weather chaos.
