More than 900 dead in Indonesia due to massive floods that have devastated the country

Indonesian authorities have raised the death toll to 921 on Sunday following the floods that have ravaged the northern part of Sumatra Island, according to the latest breakdown of figures from the emergency agency. Search and rescue teams are still trying to locate 392 people who are missing among the mud-covered mountains that have engulfed entire houses in some of the worst-hit regions. President Prabowo Subianto visited Aceh province in northern Sumatra, one of the most affected areas, and announced various economic aid measures for the affected. ‘Debts will be forgiven because this is an extraordinary event,’ the president told a group of farmers in Teupin Mane village, as reported by the local channel ‘CNBC’. Prabowo urged authorities to speed up the distribution of humanitarian aid and food. In remote areas without land access, teams are using drones and helicopters to transport supplies. Apart from Indonesia, which has been hit the hardest by the recent cyclones in South and Southeast Asia, severe floods have also been reported in Thailand with over 275 deaths, and in Sri Lanka where the death toll exceeds 620.