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A landslide that occurred in the district of Wara Barat of the city of Palopo in Central Sulawesi has killed 13 residents. Directly after the landslide occurred, other residents in the area scrambled to the location to look for victims under the debris, but only bodies were pulled from the rubble.
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The investment of substantial sums in recent years to reclaim and protect Kuta's shoreline has done little to prevent severe erosion in the last days of October 2009. A major stretch of Kuta has lost 15 meters of beach depth along a stretch 200 meters long. A member of Commission B of Bali's House of Representatives (DPRD), Wayan Puspa Negara, said the erosion damage was severe and has been taking place over the past several months.
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Tourists and residents across the island are complaining that temperatures on the island are exceptionally hot. According to Kompas.com, Bali's hotter-than-normal-heat-wave have seen sunbathers, who used to spend the entire day on Kuta Beach, abandoning the shoreline at 9:30 a.m. to escape the escalating heat.
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Five people died and two others were injured after a landslide hit Indonesia's Pati regency of Central Java province at dawn Tuesday, the Elshinta online news reported. The landslide hit a cliff that collapsed on three houses at Kedungwinong village of Sukolilo sub regency, Pati regency.
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The prolonged dry season currently being experienced in Bali is having profound impact on the island's ecology. As reported by Bali Post, of the 165 rivers found on the island, 73 have now run dry. Of the remaining 92 river still flowing, most of these are doing so with substantially reduced flow rates. Many of the dried-up rivers are in West Buleleng, East Buleleng, Kubu and Seraya areas of Bali.
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Although is still dry season, the southeastern part of Bali has seen unseasonably cold and wet weather caused by a so-called Madden-Julian oscillation in the higher stratosphere. An official from the Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysics Agency BMKG said. Rain and low temperatures was the weather during the Idul Fitri holidays.
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The head of the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics agency , Sri Woro, has said that waters in big parts of Indonesia will be hit by waves with heights up to five meters, caused by bad weather in the region. The bad weather comes at a time which is the most busy travel period in Indonesia, the upcoming Idul Fitri celebrations.
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One resident of the village of Domas, in the underdistrict of Pontang in Serang, has been killed by a whirlwind that touched down in the village around 19:30 local time last night. The victim, Sukenah (50) died of a heart attack when he heard the village was about to be hit by a whirlwind.
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Heavy rainstorms have hit the greater Jakarta area overnight. Rain started to fall down from around 20.00 local time yesterday evening and did not stop until the early hours of today. Rain of this intensity and length is rare, since it is in the middle of the dry season in the area. The heavy rains caused some streets to flood immediately.
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A government rescue official says at least six people have been killed in a landslide in central Java. Hours of torrential rain on the main island of Java sent mud and rocks tumbling onto four houses, said National Search and Rescue agency official Basuki on Saturday.
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It didn't last another five minutes again before I felt the first rain coming down. And it wasn't water thrown up by the tires of trucks and buses but rain. I assumed that I drove too far for the passing rainstorm, but that was an illusion. The real situation was much more wet than those few drops of rain, but it would only be clear later on. Since the rain was intensifying I decided to take a break somewhere along the road - no idea where - to drink a glass of hot jeruk hangat (hot water with a small orange squeezed in it) and a Sampoerna cigarette. Just to get oversight about the situation.
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It is October 8, 2008 in the morning when I prepare myself for a trip to the neighboring city of Solo. I do this because there are still some stamps missing in my albums. I do not collect points here, converted to money they are worth almost nothing and that 50 Rupiah discount on a bottle of iced tea of 3.500 Rupiah is something I am not waiting for as well. Those stamps however, I would like to have, so it occasionally occurs that I have to do some more effort for them than just the short trip to the local main post office downtown, at the other side of 'Malioboro'.
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The Meteorological and Geophysics Office BMG has sent a weather warning for the central and eastern parts of Indonesia. People there should be on the watch for bad weather like heavy rains, lightning and the effects of that like landslides. The bad weather is expected to arrive as early as tomorrow and will most likely last until July 21.
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The Meteorological and Geophysical Institute BMG has predicted that waves with heights up to four meters will occur in the seas south of Merauke. Waves this high are dangerous to all kinds of vessels. Based on forecasts from BMG, high waves with heights between three and four meters will also occur in the Arafuru Sea. The conditions are dangerous enough for any passing vessel like freighters, ferries and fishing boats.
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Parts of the city of Bandung, in western Java, were hit by bad weather with strong winds and heavy rain. This time there was also hail, which is pretty rare in tropical regions. The small stones of ice with a size of about one centimeter dropped from the sky in various parts of the city while it was raining. The hail caused damage to a number of vehicles that were outside.
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A landslide in Indonesian West Sumatra province of Sumatra Island on Saturday evening blocked transportation with nearby provinces, National Disaster Management Agency said on Sunday. A kiosk and a truck were buried by the landslide, said Setio Sutarmo, an official of the agency.
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Rescuers dug for survivors after a landslide on the island of Java pummeled a village on Wednesday, killing at least seven people and destroying homes and roads, officials said.
Days of torrential rainfall sent tons of mud surging into a village near the town of Brebes, 220 kilometers east of the capital Jakarta, said Rustam Pakaya of the Health Ministry's Disaster Crisis Center.
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After heavy rains since last Thursday, a landslide occurred in the village of Situbuhtubuh in sub-sub-district Danau Paris, Aceh Singkil. Two houses were buried in the landslide, which resulted in eight victims. At this moment the local police, the Indonesian army and the Red Cross are at the location to clean the location. Some heavy equipment from PT Lestari Tunggal Pratama were brought to the location as well.
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The Trans-Sulawesi highway between Poros and Pantura (the northern part of the road) which forms the main connection between the provinces of Gorontalo and Central Sulawesi has been cut of because of landslides at several points. The landslides occurred after heavy rains hit the district of North Gorontalo in the past few days.
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Some 73 houses in two villages in the district of Jombang, eastern Java, were damaged during a whirlwind. Of the 73 houses that were damaged, 41 are located in the village of Ngrimbi and 32 in the village of Brongkol. Most houses suffered damage to the roof. One school in the village of Ngrimbi was also damaged.
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At least 11 people died in a landslide in the area of Dok 2 in the city of Jayapura in Papua. The landslide occurred after heavy rains lashed the area for quite some time. Heavy rain started to fall last night and didn't stop until this morning. Members from the local police, the army and local residents are searching for victims that are still missing under the rubble.
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Dozens of houses in the village of Tumpakrejo, in the sub-district of Gedangan Malang in the district of Malang in eastern Java, were damaged by a landslide. Five of them were heavily damaged. There were no casualties in this event. The landslide occurred after heavy rains lashed the area almost continuing for the last two days. The landslide occurred in the afternoon, so all people in the area were able to rescue themselves.
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About 60 fishing boats which are owned by local fishers in the area of Pelabuhan Ratu, in Sukabumi, western Java, were destroyed by high waves. The boats were dragged away by high waves and destroyed when they were thrown back onto the beaches again.
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The Meteorological and Geophysical Agency predicts that in the coming days big parts of Indonesia will be hit by rains with an intensity between light and very heavy together with strong winds. There are warnings outstanding for the new years celebrations in Jabodetabek where it will most likely rain throughout the day. This information was released by Achmad Zakir, who is head of the information department of BMG.
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The number of fatalities of landslides and floods on Java Island, has climbed to 153, the National Disaster Management Agency said Sunday. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has warned of possible catastrophes across the nation, which has thousands of lack-forest covered areas with dense population, due to prediction of the meteorology agency that rainfalls would be high in December, January and February.
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The high waters that washed ashore two days ago have left a lot of trash at some of the southern beaches which has to be cleaned up. In the last two days, many people have started gathering the trash - wood, plastic and others - on big piles on the beaches of Jimbaran, Kuta, Legian and Seminyak. In some places with the help of heavy equipment because the trash that washed ashore consists of wooden logs.
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Landslides and floods caused by heavy rain have left at least 120 people dead or missing on Java. Rescuers struggle to pull out bodies under the thick mud. Officials inform that thousands of people have become homeless when their houses were submerged by floods or destroyed in landslides in villages near the Bengawan Solo river in central Java.
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The Damjati bridge in the village of Semen in the district of Magetan, eastern Java, has collapsed because it was not able to withstand the high water level in the river. At least 20 people are missing, they were dragged away by the powerful currents. Until earlier this evening, none of the missing persons had been found. The high currents of the swollen river make it very difficult to look for the missing.
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The number of victims from the landslides in the district of Tawangmangu in central Java has reportedly risen to 71. Most victims were from the village of Mogol, as much as 37 people that lived there have died. Until earlier this evening, just five of the 37 victims were evacuated from the landslide area.
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At least 61 people were killed and 36 others went missing after rain-triggered landslides hit Tawangmangu district at Karanganyar regency of Central Java province on Wednesday, disaster management agency said. An official of the agency at the field Anggit M.S. told that rescuers, comprising soldiers, police and personnel from the national rescue agency, were searching those missing under the buried houses.
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Bad weather and high waves in the waters west of the island of Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, have worsened the abrasion of the beaches near the city of Mataram. The bad weather also causes fishermen to be forced to stay on land. For the fishermen these four days already is quite a long time, but they don't know yet when they can hit the seas again.
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High waves that hit the beach of Carita, in the district of Pandeglang in the province of Banten, have destroyed dozens of houses which were built on the very edge of the beach. The high waves were not broken by the wave-breakers in place at the beach because the high water was already higher than the wave-breakers.
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The road between Mojokerto and Batu near Malang in eastern Java, is completely blocked by a landslide in the area of the Big Forest Area Mojokerto yesterday afternoon. The landslide occurred after sustained rain lashed the area for quite some time. At the end the road that connects the cities of Mojokerto and Batu - which is an important route for east-west traffic on the island of Java - has been blocked completely. The road is covered in about one meter of sand with stones and trees.
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First some lightning and later with a rolling thunder from the south, a bunch of dark clouds heads towards the north. After two rainshowers yesterday afternoon it is very likely that it will rain again today. A clear sign that the wet monsoon finally will kick of. Somewhat late, but with half a year of virtually no rain at all, every single drop of rain is a gift from God for farmers and people with their own garden. Yesterdays rain was just a reminder of the arrival of the wet monsoon and also cleaned the streets from the dust that had been gathered in all possible and impossible places during the last six months.
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Twenty people have been killed and 52 others were still missing after a landslide and flood hit areas in the province of Central Sulawesi on Sunday evening, the Disaster Management Agency told Tuesday. The disaster in Batu Bare and Tomboyali districts in the regency of Morowali had destroyed over one hundred houses, including transport facilities, according to officials.
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High tidal waves - not tsunami's - that have damaged hundreds of houses along many of Indonesia's western coastlines continue to hit the area for a third day, forcing fishermen to stay on land and keeping tourist away from the beaches. Until now only one person is killed, dozens of fishing boats were destroyed as waves reached heights of seven meters in some areas.
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Adi Sucipto airport in Yogyakarta was temporarily closed yesterday afternoon because of strong winds and heavy rain. It reopened at 14:15 again after the weather had improved. The departure of a Garuda flight to Bali (GA 252) had been delayed by one hour. The plane was scheduled to depart from the airport at 13:15.
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Ferry boats have halted the route between Merak in West Java and Bakauheni in Sumatra during the last 11 days because of extremely bad weather. Waves in the route over the Sunda Strait sometimes reached a height of four meters, as was told by assistant supervisor Mudhofar of state ferry company ASDP.
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Two people are dead and many houses and other buildings were damaged after a whirlwind hit Mayangan and Kademangan areas in Probolinggo, East Java in the late afternoon on Monday. The police chief of Probolinggo, Adjunct Senior Commissioner Topan Herinoto said the strong winds lasted only about ten minutes, but that was enough to bring heavy damage to the area.
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Rains and the given fact of the remoteness of the areas earlier hit by landslides hamper relief efforts for the about 40 missing. Hundreds of people are displaced after landslides hit the island of Flores last week. Around 1,000 people have been evacuated from the area because their houses were washed away. Main roads also got damaged in the landslides, which further complicates the process. At least 34 people are confirmed dead.
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Rescue teams are still trying to find the fifty-odd people missing after landslides hit several villages on Flores. Roads blocked by landslides hamper rescue efforts. The landslides, which are triggered by heavy rain in the last days, hit several villages in four districts of Manggarai on the island, about 1,500 kilometers to the east from the capital Jakarta.
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After days of heavy rain, landslides killed at least 40 people on the island of Flores earlier today. 30 more are probably buried under the mud and have not been found yet. Local authorities had to find a way through blocked roads to bring in emergency aid to the affected areas and to find survivors, Pustam Pakaya, chief of the Health Department's crisis center in Jakarta told.
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Weather forecasts for the coming days show a big portion of heavy rain will be arriving in Sumatra, especially the southern part of the island. CNN reported that however the rains would not be there for days, the intensity would be very high, indicating that local floods may occur in the coming hours to days.
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At least seven people from the villages of Tanjungsari and Pasangsari, district Magelang, Central Java, were killed in a landslide Sunday. This was reported by the village head of Tanjungsari. Four others were wounded and three were still missing. Rescue workers have already evacuated the dead and wounded, and they were still looking for the three missing persons.
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Atleast 519 houses were slightly or more badly damaged by a whirlwind that hit downtown Yogyakarta Sunday afternoon. "The damaged houses are located in the subdistricts of Gondokusuman, Umbulharjo, Pakualaman and Danurejan," said the head of the Fire Department in Yogyakarta, Wahyu Hidayat on Sunday night. Wahu also reported that at least 45 of the whirlwind victims had been brought to hospitals. Around 500 others had taken refuge elsewhere.
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A landslide triggered by heavy rains struck a remote island in north-east Indonesia, killing at least 28 people and displacing more than 3,000 others in three villages, an official said yesterday. The floods hit Tahuna, district capital of the Sangihe islands, about 250km north of the North Sulawesi provincial capital Manado, at about 2am last Friday.
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Well into what should be the rainy season, Jakarta is suffering through record-high temperatures, and experts warn residents they can expect more of the same.The Meteorological and Geophysics Agency says Jakarta has recently seen temperatures as high as 36 degrees Celsius. Normally, the temperature in the city stays below 32 degrees in January. R
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A four-year-old boy was killed and 12 people buried in a landslide in Indonesia's West Sumatra province that hit several homes and a small mosque, media reports said Tuesday. The landslide took place Monday in Sungai Sariak, a village on Sumatra island, following several days of heavy rain, the state-run Antara news agency reported.
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Heavy downpours continue to cause severe problems throughout the Indonesian archipelago. In several places flash floods and landslides occurred in the last few days. Indahnesia.com gathered several messages and put them together as a news item.
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Landslides in Indonesia's Sumatra island killed 17 people on Friday, most of them worshippers in a mosque, a rescue official said. Satria Arjuna, chief of the emergency team in the area, said workers were searching for 11 more people missing after the landslides struck two villages in the remote area of western Sumatra.
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Indonesia may be affected by "moderately intense'' El Nino weather conditions that could last right through next year, parching Southeast Asia's largest economy, the meteorological agency said. Floods may follow. The events, caused by warming of equatorial waters in the Pacific Ocean, occur every two to seven years and shift normal weather patterns worldwide. Authorities would begin cloud- seeding, an official at the agency said at a briefing today.
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At least 95 people have been killed in the Indonesian province of Papua due to extreme cold temperatures combined with cold-related viral diseases and illnesses in recent weeks.
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Flash floods in central Indonesia killed at least 22 people Monday, a government official said, predicting that the toll would rise. Local media reports said as many as 31 people died after a river broke its banks in Panti, a subdistrict of East Java province. "So far we have received 22 bodies," said Burhanudin, a local official in Panti, who goes by only one name.
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The death toll from crushing landslides that smashed into two villages in Indonesia's Aceh province last week has reached 20, with around 250 people injured, a rescue official said on Tuesday. Rochmali, chief of Aceh's search and rescue unit, said more than 3,000 people had been made homeless from the rain-triggered landslides that hit two villages in the Kutacane district a week ago while residents were sleeping.
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A landslide in Indonesia's Sumatra island triggered by torrential rains buried at least 10 people in their homes and left more than two dozen missing, a rescue official said on Friday. The landslide occurred on Thursday near Padang city, about 940 km (580 miles) northwest of the capital, Jakarta, after two days of heavy rains.
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Twenty people were killed and 76 missing under rubble and mud after heavy rain caused a landslide on Monday near a garbage dump on the outskirts of the Indonesian city of Bandung, police said. Police in West Java province had earlier reported that 139 people were missing after a wall of mud and garbage up to 7 metres high crashed into houses about a kilometre away.
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Nine people were killed and around 139 are missing after heavy rain caused a landslide on Monday near a garbage dump on the outskirts of the Indonesian city of Bandung, police said. "The number of missing is around 139. We have found nine dead victims," Caca Supriatna, a police detective from Batujajar precinct, told Reuters. "We are still trying to evacuate the victims," he said.
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At least seven people were killed and up to 100 others were missing after a landslide in a slum near the Indonesian city of Bandung, southeast of Jakarta, early Monday, police and local officials said. The landslide was triggered by heavy rain and buried the shacks of more than 40 families living in a dumpsite west of Bandung. The city is around 200 kilometres (120 miles) southeast of Jakarta.
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Torrential rain in Indonesia's East Java province caused widespread flooding and killed at least nine people, the provincial governor said Sunday. Hundreds of homes were damaged during three days of heavy rains that began Wednesday in heavily populated East Java, said Gov. Imam Utomo. "The floods reached up to chest level," Utomo said. "Seven victims died swept away by the waters. Two elderly people died because of shock and exhaustion." The rain stopped late Saturday and water levels began to recede, Utomo said.
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A downpour, compounded by hail and strong winds in some places, hit Bandung city on Thursday afternoon, toppling dozens of trees and causing flooding in some parts of the city. However, an official from the Bandung office of the Geophysics and Meteorological Agency (BMG) quickly rejected suggestions that the rain, which came after several months of drought in the city, marked the start of the wet season in Bandung, the capital of West Java province.
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Increasing smoke and haze from bush and forest fires in the past week around Jambi city have disrupted flights and led to respiratory problems among residents. M. Sidabutar, the head of Sultan Thaha Airport Management, said on Monday that the worsening haze had decreased pilot visibility so many flights in and out of Jambi had to be delayed. "We have informed Jakarta and other airports in order to delay flights to Jambi as the haze thickened this morning," said Sidabutar.
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Haze from forest fires that is fouling skies over Indonesia and Malaysia may worsen in coming months as farmers continue to torch land to make way for crops, the government was quoted as saying Monday. Bush fires have sent smoke billowing over large parts of Indonesia's Sumatra and Kalimantan islands in recent months. The haze has also spread to neighbouring Malaysia and Brunei.
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Indonesian police say at least 12 people were killed when a landslide buried a passenger bus in West Sumatra. A search was under way for 17 others thought to be trapped in the bus, which was on a mountain road near the border of West and North Sumatra.
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AT least 13 people were killed when a landslide triggered by heavy rains buried homes in a village in Indonesia's West Java province, police said today. The landslide hit Kidang Pananjung village near Bandung city late yesterday, said Master Sergeant Jamaluddin of the Cililin district police. "Initial reports we have received show that at least 13 people have been found dead and seven others were injured," Jamaluddin said.
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Two people died and 33 others are missing after a landslide hit Manimbahoi subdistrict in Gowa regency, South Sulawesi province, on Friday morning. The two were named as Sadding Limpo and Daeng Rumpa, both residents of Manimbahoi subdistrict, Moncong Tinggi district. Muhammad Guntur, the head of the subdistrict, said on late Friday that he initially heard a loud noise at 11.30 a.m. It appeared to came from near the foot of Bawakaraeng mountain.
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At least 14 people were missing, presumed dead, after heavy rain caused landslides in the Purworejo district in Central Java on Friday morning. The missing were seven men and six women -- from Tlitir village and one woman, in Sekemeng village. The landslide in Tlitir also destroyed four houses, while the landslide in Sekemeng injured one person and destroyed three houses.
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The railway line from Indonesia`s West Java city of Bandung to Kroya, a district in Central Java, was disrupted following landslides triggered by heavy rains on Friday, an official said here Saturday. Spokesman of the Indonesian Railway Company PT KAI, Akhmad Sujadi said the reparation of the snapped railway will likely to finish by about 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
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A landslide triggered by heavy rain has killed four people at a roadside food stall in a village in South Sulawesi province and four others are missing, police said Tuesday.
Three of the four victims were passengers on a bus that had stopped at the stall at Putada village in Majene district on Monday, said district police chief Adj. Sr. Comm. Kawedar.
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Landslides and floods triggered by heavy rain have killed three people and forced more than 3,000 people to flee their homes in Indonesia's East Java province. Police say the landslides and floods hit the Sumbermanjing Wetan area over the weekend. Two people were killed by landslides and one drowned after being swept away by a swollen river.
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The search for 102 people still missing after an Indonesian flood disaster will be extended over a wider area, officials said on Thursday as the confirmed death toll rose to 142. The flash flood on Nov. 2 swept through Bahorok, a popular riverside resort on the edge of Mount Leuser National Park in North Sumatra, destroying more than 450 buildings.
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Authorities have issued conflicting statements on whether the search for more than 100 people still missing after a flash flood in North Sumatra province will be continued. Officials on Tuesday (11/11/03) said a total of 140 bodies had been found since the flood swept through the resort town of Bahorok in Bukit Lawang district on the night of November 2, destroying more than 450 buildings.
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The Bukit Lawang resort will be closed to tourists for six months so the local administration can rebuild the area after the devastating flood that killed more than 130 people. North Sumatra Governor Tengku Rizal Nurdin said on Sunday it would take at least six months to restore the resort, including an orangutan reserve, in Bahorok subdistrict, Langkat regency.
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The number of dead bodies from a flash flood six days ago in Langkat regency, North Sumatra province had inched up to 134 by Sunday and about the same number of people were still missing, an official said. "We have so far found 134 bodies of victims, 25 of them still unidentified," said Masri Zen, an official of the coordination post for the search efforts in the North Sumatran town of Bahorok.
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Five more bodies were discovered in Langkat, North Sumatra province on Saturday, bringing to 132 the number of people killed in a flash flood five days ago blamed on illegal logging in the province, an official said. The bodies, including a female corpse with a missing head, were found in a badly decomposed state under piles of tree logs and mud, said Maharum of the search and rescue office in the town of Bahorok.
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The devastating flash flood that swept through a resort town in Langkat district in Indonesia`s North Sumatera province rose to 128 till 18:00 hours, sources said on Friday. Rescuers searching for victims of the disaster found more 15 dead bodies. The latest victims in decomposed condition were six females and nine males.
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The confirmed death toll from a flash flood blamed on illegal logging in Langkat, regency, North Sumatra province, stands at 123 as the search continues for 147 people still missing and feared dead, officials said Friday. As of late Friday afternoon rescue workers had recovered 123 bodies, 10 of them found earlier in the day, said Masrizan, head of a unit tasked with finding flood victims in the resort town of Bahorok in Langkat district.
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Relatives of more than 100 people killed in the recent devastating flood in North Sumatra demanded the immediate arrests of illegal loggers on Thursday, as police moved to find those involved in the rampant deforestation blamed for the flood. The victims called the loggers who had encroached into the Mount Leuser National Park "terrorists" and said that they should be sentenced to death.
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The confirmed death toll from a flash flood blamed on illegal logging in the North Sumatra resort area of Langkat stands at 113 as the search continues for 147 people still missing and feared dead, an official said Friday. "As of today 113 bodies have been recovered but we keep receiving reports of missing people and as of now, 147 are still missing," said Johnny Sitorus of the search and rescue office in the provincial capital Medan.
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Indonesia's environment minister on Wednesday branded illegal loggers as terrorists after a flood disaster blamed on tree-felling killed an estimated 200 or more people in North Sumatra. Nabiel Makarim criticised the army and police for involvement in the practice, which is rampant across much of the huge archipelago.
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The confirmed death toll from a flash flood blamed on illegal logging in North Sumatra province stands at 101 while 117 people are still missing and feared dead, a rescue official said Thursday. "As of last night 101 bodies have been found while 117 are still missing," said Johnny Sitorus of the search and rescue office in the provincial capital Medan.
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Rescuers were desperately searching Tuesday for survivors after flash floods swept through a resort village near a reserve for endangered orangutans on Indonesia ’s Sumatra island, leaving more than 200 people either dead or missing. Local officials said 85 bodies had been recovered. With 123 people still missing and feared dead, the death toll was expected to rise.
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Government officials have joined environmental activists in blaming inconsistent forest management and poor law enforcement as the main causes of rampant deforestation that resulted in the flash flood which killed at least 103 people on Sunday. Hundreds are missing following the flood in Langkat regency, North Sumatra. "Yes. It's due to unprofessional management. We're not disciplined," Vice President Hamzah Haz said on Tuesday, commenting on the disaster.
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Rescuers on Tuesday morning continued searching for hundreds of people who have gone missing since flash floods swept through Bukit Lawang, a popular resort town in Indonesia`s North Sumatra province, last Sunday.
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Dozens of flags fluttered Tuesday outside homes in this shattered resort town -- symbols of mourning for the latest victims of Indonesia's environmental destruction. At least 75 people including five foreigners were killed and 100 more are missing and feared dead after a flash flood blamed partly on severe deforestation swept through the riverbank resort in North Sumatra late Sunday.
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Flash floods ripped through a popular resort town in North Sumatra late Sunday night, killing at least 92 people, including five foreign tourists. Hundreds of others were missing feared dead, while downed communication lines and demolished bridges hampered rescue efforts, officials said on Monday. Around 420 houses, including five tourist cottages, were destroyed or damaged when floodwaters, mud, trees and other debris hit the Bukit Lawang resort in Bahorok subdistrict, Langkat regency.
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Three Europeans and a Singaporean were among the 67 fatalities of a flash flood which ripped through a resort town in the North Sumatra district of Langkat, a rescue official said Monday. A 20-year-old German woman, a 40-year-old Austrian woman, a Swiss man aged 30 and a 67-year-old Singaporean man are among those confirmed dead, rescuer Johnny Sitorus said from the North Sumatra's provincial capital of Medan.
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At least 67 people, including tourists from Germany, Austria and Singapore, have been killed in a flash flood which has ripped through a resort town in Indonesia's North Sumatra province. Many more people remain missing. The floods hit Bohorok, a resort town around 100 kilometres northwest of Medan city. It is the home of a famed orang-utan refuge, which is popular with tourists who also go trekking and white-water rafting.
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Landslides have destroyed at least 115 houses in four villages in Ayah subdistrict, Kebumen district in Indonesia`s Central Java province following heavy rains during the weekend. There was no fatality in the natural disaster but material losses ran into Rp265.3 million, (EUR 26934) spokesman of the district administration, Adi Nugroho, said here Monday.
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Flash floods swept through a popular tourist resort on Indonesia's Sumatra island on Monday, killing 24 people, five of them foreigners, and leaving 72 others missing, a rescue official said. The floods, which were triggered by days of heavy rain, took place in Bohorok, close to the provincial capital of Medan in north Sumatra province.
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Mudslides are feared to have killed 32 people after heavy rains poured down on the eastern Indonesian island of Flores, a government official said on Tuesday. Paulinus Domi, the regent of Ende on Flores, told Reuters only five bodies have been found of 32 missing, but the rest were believed dead.
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Three people are dead and 26 are missing after heavy rains triggered a mudslide on theeastern Indonesian island of Flores, a government official saidon Tuesday. Official Paulinus Domi said the dead, two adults and ababy, were found in the town of Ende, about 75 km (47 miles) from Maumere city, early on Tuesday. He said three more wereseriously injured.
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Landslides triggered by heavy rain killed 12 Indonesians at a tourist destination in South Sulawesi, police said. All the victims were found in Sa'dan Balusu, a district in Tanah Toraja, said Sergeant Munip of the local police. The state news agency Antara reported that three other people were found dead yesterday near Makale, the region's capital, 1450km north-east of Jakarta.
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Ten people have been killed by a landslide that buried their homes in Indonesia's West Java province, a local official said. The deaths early Friday (local time) in Kuningan regency followed another landslide elsewhere in West Java that killed at least 18 people three days earlier. Authorities recovered the last two of 10 bodies that were buried in the landslide that struck Cantilan village the previous day, Slamet Hermansyah of the Kuningan government information bureau said.
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A mudslide triggered by heavy rain in Indonesia's West Java province has killed at least 20 people and dozens are missing, a local government official said on Wednesday. The mudslide hit two villages near the base of Mount Mandalawangi late on Tuesday, the official, Dian Widyaningsih, said.
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An American tourist was killed and a Canadian was missing and feared dead after a flash flood hit a popular waterfall, police said. Hannah Showaker, 25, of Pennsylvania, and Alana Fife, 22, were snapping photos yesterday of the Sekar Langit waterfall, 600km east of Jakarta, police said. Within seconds, a wave of water rushed down the waterfall and carried the two off, police said.
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Ten people, including two children, were killed and two others seriously wounded late on Friday when heavy rains triggered a landslide in a remote area on Indonesia's part of Borneo island, police said Saturday. Police said three days of heavy rain had triggered the landslide in a village at the foot of a hill in Pontianak regency in West Kalimantan.
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At least eight children are among up to 54 people feared killed after a mudslide at a hot springs resort in Indonesia. Scores of holidaymakers were bathing in the springs at the Padusan Air Panas resort in East Java when the mudslide hit. Emergency services confirmed 24 people were killed. Up to 30 others are believed to be trapped in debris and are feared dead, police said.
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Many people who have complained about the extremely hot weather just recently have the answer as the Meteorological and Geophysical Agency (BMG) acknowledged on Wednesday the significant temperature increase that hit parts of the country from last week would end late this month. It has affected a number of provinces in Java, Sumatra, East and West Nusa Tenggara, according to chief of the BMG's weather forecasting division Achmad Zakir.
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A two-hour downpour here at dawn Tuesday has caused the water level at the Manggarai sluice to rise by 70 cm to 770 cm, an official of the floodgate has said.
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Police, local officials and residents in the hilly residential area of Candi in Semarang, capital of Central Java, eventually completed a search for victims of a landslidethat killed seven people and injured two others.
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