Jakarta shrugs off foreign relief offers as death toll from floods and landslides hits 867
Cyclone-triggered floods and landslides have severely damaged rice fields in three provinces on Indonesia’s Sumatra island. © Reuters
ISMI DAMAYANTI and REZHA HADYAN
December 5, 2025 21:14 JST
JAKARTA – Indonesian Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman plans to restore thousands of hectares of rice fields damaged by floods in northern Sumatra within two months — a timeframe experts say is overly ambitious.