Months after floods, Indonesian survivors frustrated by slow response

A resident shoveling hardened mud from his flood-damaged home in Meurah Dua, Aceh province's Pidie Jaya district on Feb 21, 2026, after devastating floods and landslides struck Sumatra late last year. - AFP

JAKARTA: Normally, Indonesian mother-of-four Rauzah would cook a feast for her family to break their Ramadan fast. This year, she makes do as best she can in the orange tent where they have been sheltering for almost three months.

They are among 26,000 flood survivors still displaced after a monsoon deluge struck their villages on Sumatra island last year.