Sumatra villages count cost of deadly river tsunami swelled by illegal logging

Mongabay
Apr 17, 2024, 5:14 am201 pts
SOUTH PESISIR, Indonesia — Bendri lived with his wife and child just 80 meters, or 260 feet, back from the Surantih Mudiak Dalam River, which flows from Sumatra’s Barisan Mountains down to the Indian Ocean coast of West Sumatra province. “There used to be a surau at the back here,” Bendri told Mongabay…

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