Flooding Dominates Natural Disasters in Indonesia at the Start of 2024

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Cindy Mutia Annur 12/01/2024 13:28 WIB

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The BNPB report indicates that there were 66 natural disasters in Indonesia from January 1-12, 2024. Flooding was the most frequent natural disaster at the beginning of this year, with 42 occurrences

Number of Natural Disasters in Indonesia (January 1-12, 2024)

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Number of Natural Disasters in Indonesia (January 1-12, 2024)

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A report from the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) shows that there were 66 natural disasters in Indonesia from January 1-12, 2024.

Flooding was the most frequent natural disaster at the beginning of this year, with 42 incidents. This accounts for 63.64% of the total number of natural disasters in the country.

Other frequent natural disasters included 17 extreme weather events, followed by 7 landslides.

Meanwhile, there were no forest and land fires (karhutla), droughts, earthquakes, high tides/abrasion, volcanic eruptions, or tsunamis at the beginning of this year.

By region, the most natural disasters occurred in West Java (17 incidents), Central Java (9 incidents), Riau (7 incidents), and East Java, South Sumatra, and West Kalimantan (5 incidents each).

According to BNPB, these disasters caused 206,431 people to suffer and be displaced, 16 people were injured, 4 people died, and 1 person is missing.

The disasters also resulted in damage to 9,617 houses. The breakdown is as follows: 53 houses were severely damaged, 119 moderately damaged, and 9,445 slightly damaged.

There were also 7 damaged public facilities as a result of these disasters, comprising 4 places of worship and 3 educational facilities. On the other hand, no health facilities were damaged due to these natural disasters.

Editor : Padjar Iswara

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