"A total of 150,322 people have been affected by the floods. Currently, there are still refugees at 80 points," the agency's acting head of disaster data, information, and communication center, Abdul Muhari, noted during a disaster briefing in Jakarta on Monday.
He said that the October 3–9 period broke the record for the most disaster events compared to previous weeks, with 70 disasters reported that were dominated by wet hydrometeorological disasters.
The 70 disasters consisted of 69 wet hydrometeorological disasters and one dry hydrometeorological incident.
"Of these 70 incidents, some 36 involved flooding, 18 landslides, and 15 extreme weather events," Muhari informed.
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The North Aceh district of Aceh province is still affected by floods and the water level has not subsided so far due to rainfall of fairly high intensity, he said.
The dominant rainfall distribution has been seen in the northern and southern parts of Sumatra Island, while rainfall has been evenly distributed on the south coast of Java, Muhari said.
Based on an analysis conducted on October 7, phenomena such as storms, which resulted in cloud accumulation and increased rainfall intensity, were observed along the south coast of Java.
"The rainfall is almost evenly distributed from the west end to the east end, starting from Pangandaran, Sukabumi, Garut, Trenggalek, Jember, Banyuwangi—all of them are affected," he informed.
In addition, on October 9, the Bali Provincial Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) reported flooding, hurricanes, extreme weather, and landslides in the region, which had a significant overall impact.
Ten people died in wet hydrometeorological disasters, consisting of three elementary school students in Jakarta, one person in North Aceh district, one victim in Cilacap district, Central Java, and five people in Bali, Muhari said.
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