Floods and deadly landslides struck in Indonesia on Friday 15 August 2014 after long periods of heavy rain. Two people were killed and hundreds displaced.
The fatalities occurred in a landslide in the Bogor district of West Java, Indonesia’s National Disaster Agency said.
Elsewhere in Indonesia, heavy rain also caused flash floods in the Bone Bolango regency of Gorontalo province where 600 had to evacuate their homes for safer ground. Several houses were damaged or completely destroyed in the deluge. Rail and road infrastructure has also been damaged. The floods came after a nearby river had burst its banks.
Indoenesia has been seeing high levels of rain for the last 7 days or more. On 11 August 2014 around 15,000 people were evacuated in Central Sulawesi after heavy rain prompted floods in the area. Jakarta, the nation’s capital and certainly no stranger to flooding, saw heavy rainfall and flash floods around the same time.
