Estimated Food Needs for Sumatra Disaster Victims (December 19, 2025)
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According to the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), thousands of residents on Sumatra Island are still displaced due to floods and landslides that occurred in late November 2025.
Based on segregated displacement data, as of Friday morning (December 19, 2025), there are 210 displacement sites in Aceh and North Sumatra Provinces, with 111,620 registered displaced persons.
All these displaced persons are estimated to require food equivalent to 364.89 million kilocalories (kcal) per day.
Below are the details of the estimated food needs for flood and landslide victims in Aceh and North Sumatra Provinces, according to BNPB data as of December 19, 2025, at 07:37 AM WIB:
Aceh Province
- Food: 216.95 million kcal/day
- Food (toddlers): 116.22 million kcal/day
- Supplementary food for pregnant women: 2.74 million kcal/day
- Total: 335.91 million kcal/day
North Sumatra Province
- Food: 18.80 million kcal/day
- Food (toddlers): 10.07 million kcal/day
- Supplementary food for pregnant women: 110,000 kcal/day
- Total: 28.98 million kcal/day
In addition to food, BNPB estimates that displaced persons in Aceh Province require 1.55 million liters of clean water/day, and those in North Sumatra Province require 134,265 liters/day.
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