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According to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB, or Badan Nasional Penanggulanan Bencana), as many as 566 people were killed by natural disasters and displaced over 2.6 million in Indonesia in 2014. Almost all of the disasters were classified as hydro-meteorological events.
Mass killings in 1965–66, ruled by the International Criminal Court to constitute a genocide that Indonesia was responsible for and the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia were complicit in, killed at least 400,000 and up to three million. The killings targeted alleged communists.
The BNPB declared a 14-day state of emergency in West Sumatra [14] and distributed a total of Rp 3.2 billion in aid to local governments affected by the floods. [15] They were also involved in searching for missing people in areas near rivers and clearing important roads from large rocks, debris and mud due to flooding.
The number of people killed by flash floods and mud slides in Indonesia's West Sumatra province has risen to 52 and more than 3,000 people were evacuated, authorities said on Tuesday. Torrential ...
Days of torrential rain have brought floods and landslides in Indonesia's province of West Sumatra, forcing the evacuation of more than 70,000 people, while killing at least 19, with seven going ...
Save the Children Indonesia, along with local help, distributed supplies in affected areas which included food, clean water, shelter kits, hygiene kits, clothes, bedding, and medicine. [3] Abdul Malik, the West Sumatra provincial head of Indonesia's search and rescue agency, said on March 11 that "Five hundred packages of aid including tents ...
Roads turned to murky brown rivers, homes were swept away by strong currents and bodies were pulled from mud during deadly flash floods and landslides after torrential rains hit West Sumatra in ...
Indonesia: 2018 2018 Sunda Strait tsunami: 416 Ruang: 2 Indonesia: 1871 1871 Ruang eruption and tsunami: 400+ Kilauea: 4 Hawaii, United States: 1790 Keanakakoi eruption: 350 to 400 Mount Mayon: 4 Philippines: 1897 [22] 353 Mount Merapi: 4 Indonesia: 2010 2010 eruptions of Mount Merapi: 340 Cotopaxi: 4 Ecuador: 1877 [23] 326 Makian: 4 Indonesia ...