Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency (known by its acronym BNPB) reported 961 confirmed deaths, 234 missing persons, roughly 5,000 injuries, and almost a million displaced persons from weeks of flooding and landslides in Sumatra.

According to a report delivered by BNPB to President Prabowo Subianto, there are currently 975,075 people living in temporary shelters due to the storms, most of them from Sumatra’s northwestern province of Aceh.

Flooding and landslides damaged over 156,000 homes, according to BNPB. Much of the damage was caused by thick pools of mud and clumps of debris swept along by flood waters, a situation that has led to a troubling uptick in diseases such as diarrhoea, myalgia, and various fevers.

To make matters worse, many of Sumatra’s hospitals and

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