Indonesia pledges action on companies causing catastrophic Sumatra floods

Indonesia is investigating companies suspected of clearing forests around flood-hit areas in Sumatra, its forestry minister ...

Survivors reflect on Indonesia’s floods as receding water reveals swathe of destruction

Environmental groups have long warned that rampant logging in Sumatra’s highlands destabilizes slopes and reduces the land’s ...
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Indonesia bucks pressure to label floods national disaster

Indonesia's government is resisting growing pressure to declare a national disaster over devastating floods that killed ...

Indonesia promises action on any mining permit violations as Sumatra floods toll at about 800

Indonesia will revoke mining permits if companies are found to have violated rules on flood-ravaged Sumatra island, the ...
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What We’re Watching: Indonesia investigates firms over devastating floods, Tunisia arrests opposition leader, Fighting continues as DRC and Rwanda sign another peac…

Indonesia identifies aggravator of Sumatra flood deathsAfter the death toll from cyclone-induced floods in Sumatra surpassed ...

'Is She Alive?': Indonesian Man's Hopes of Finding Missing Wife Fade After Flood Disaster

A local resident Abdul Ghani, 57, shows a photo of his wife Marsoni, who has been missing following deadly flash floods in ...

Floods Have Killed at Least 1,200 in Southern Asia. Here’s What to Know.

Hundreds more were still missing and millions have been displaced in the rain-drenched region, with Sri Lanka and Indonesia ...
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Sri Lanka declares 22 districts disaster zones after Cyclone Ditwah devastation

Colombo: Sri Lanka on Wednesday declared 22 of the country’s 25 administrative districts as ‘disaster zones’ even as a ...