In this publication the Indonesian organisation Walhi denounces the country’s government classification of the floods and landslides that heavily struck Aceh, North and West Sumatra in December 2025 as a ´natural disaster´. For many years, Walhi has been alerting how the, up to now, 1.4 million hectares of deforestation in these areas to enable profit-driven corporate and unrestrained expansion of logging; industrial oil palm plantations; mineral, metal and geothermal mining; and hydropower dams, all legalized by the government, is directly connected to this disaster that resulted in a death toll of more than 1,000 people. Read the press release of Walhi, in Indonesian here.
In this publication the Indonesian organisation Walhi denounces the country’s government classification of the floods and landslides that heavily struck Aceh, North and West Sumatra in December 2025 as a ´natural disaster´.