This picture shows an aerial view of members of Indonesia's Mobile Brigade Corps deploying Sumatran elephants to help clear tree debris following flash floods in Meureudu, Pidie Jaya district, Aceh province on December 8, 2025. Officials in flood-hit parts of Indonesia reported shortages of food, shelter, and medicine as the death toll reached 950 on December 8 following weeks of heavy rain. (Photo by CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP/Chaideer MAHYUDDIN / AFP)
Officials in flood-hit parts of the country reported shortages of food, shelter and medicine as the death toll reached 950 following weeks of heavy rain.
A slew of tropical storms and monsoon rains has pummelled South-East and South Asia, triggering landslides and flash floods from the rainforests of Indonesia’s western Sumatera island to the highland plantations of Sri Lanka.
