December 7, 2025 | 07:30 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) has recorded an increase in deaths from the floods in Sumatra on Sunday, December 7, 2025.
Based on the emergency handling geoportal data of floods and landslides in Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra displayed by BNPB, the death toll reached 940 people on Sunday afternoon. The death toll in Aceh reached 366. Then, West Sumatra reached 226, and North Sumatra reached 329.
The missing victims in these three provinces reached 329 people. The most missing victims occurred in West Sumatra, with 213 people. Meanwhile, in Aceh, the missing victims reached 97 people, and in North Sumatra, 82 people. The total number of injured victims across the three provinces reached 5,000.
The total number of deaths has continued to increase since the previous day. The Head of Data, Information, and Communication Center for BNPB Disaster, Abdul Muhari, stated that as of last Saturday, the total number of victims had surpassed 900.
"Inalillahi wa inailihi roji'un, of course, deep sympathy goes out to the victims. Today, Saturday, December 6, 2025, the total number of deaths was 914," said Abdul Muhari in a press conference broadcast on BNPB Indonesia's YouTube channel on Saturday, December 6, 2025.
Abdul Muhari said that the number of victims is dynamic. Because some victims were previously reported missing, but in some places, they were reported to be safe. "Of course, we hope that this number will continue to decrease until the search and rescue operations can truly minimize the number of missing victims," he said.
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