Tag: Indonesia
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Indonesia Seeks Over $3 Billion for Sumatra Flood Recovery Efforts
Indonesia says more than $3 billion in recovery funds required after Sumatra floods Reuters How a cocktail of rogue storms and climate chaos unleashed deadly flooding across Asia CNN Pope Leo XIV prays for victims of floods in Southeast Asia Vatican News Indonesia Halts Agincourt, PTPN III Operations After Floods livemint.com Death toll from devastating Indonesia floods passes 900 BBC…
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Indonesia Faces Starvation Threat as Flood Death Toll Exceeds 900
Ruinous floods and landslides have killed more than 900 people on Indonesia’s island of Sumatra, the country’s disaster management agency said on Saturday, with fears that starvation could send the toll even higher. A chain of tropical storms and monsoonal rains has pummelled Southeast and South Asia, triggering landslides and flash floods from the Sumatran…
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Indonesia Suspends Agincourt and PTPN III Operations Due to Flooding
(Bloomberg) — Indonesia suspended the operations of three companies in Sumatra, saying it would probe whether their land-clearing activities helped trigger the deadly floods and landslides that killed hundreds on the island. The government halted the operations of mining services company PT Agincourt Resources, state-owned plantation firm PT Perkebunan Nusantara III and hydro power developer…