Jakarta, hitclubapk3 Indonesia
—
National Disaster Management Agency (
BNPB
) recorded the death toll in
flood and landslide disasters
in Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra increased to 712 people as of Tuesday (2/12) afternoon.
Based on BNPB data displayed on their official website, the number of missing victims is 507 people in the three affected provinces .
In detail, the number of victims who died in Aceh was 218 people and 227 people who were missing.Then in North Sumatra, 301 people died and 163 people disappeared.
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Then in West Sumatra, 193 people died and 117 people disappeared.
Meanwhile, the number of injured victims in this disaster reached 2,564 people in the three provinces.The number of residents affected by major floods in Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra has reached 3.3 million.
Flash floods and landslides hit around 50 districts/cities in Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra.Thousands of residents’ houses were badly damaged by the floods and landslides that occurred last week.
The Center of Economic and Law Studies (Celios) estimates that losses due to floods and landslides reached IDR 68.67 trillion.
The calculation of economic losses from flood disasters is based on five types of losses.
First, house losses reached IDR 30 million per house.Second, bridge losses with each bridge rebuilding cost reaching IDR 1 billion.
Third, family income losses correspond to the average daily income of each province multiplied by 20 working days.
Fourth, loss of rice fields with losses reaching IDR 6,500 per kg assuming that per Ha it can produce 7 tons.Fifth, road repairs per 1000 meters reach IDR 100 million.
Meanwhile, the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) assesses that the major floods and landslides that hit North Sumatra, West Sumatra and Aceh were not only caused by extreme weather, but due to massive land conversion.
Walhi National Forest and Garden Campaign Manager Uli Arta Siagian explained that in his analysis, WALHI found that from 2016 to 2024, the three provinces lost around 1.4 million hectares of forest.
Meanwhile, there are 631 operating company permits.
“These companies operate in the mining sector, then also in the palm oil monoculture plantation sector, PBPH or Forest Utilization Business Licensing, and other energy industries such as hydropower on a large scale which occurs in Batang Toru and other areas,” said Uli when contacted.
According to him, the ecological conditions in the three provinces are already vulnerable.This condition makes the potential for disaster damage greater when extreme weather occurs.
“So, we see that land conversion is the main cause of the floods that occurred in the three provinces. Rainfall, cyclones and so on are only triggers. But our ecological condition itself is also vulnerable,” he said.
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