Banda Aceh, Aceh, Jan. 27 -- The painful memory of the late November 2025 floods is still fresh in Ishak's mind. Once the water subsided, the first thing he did was head straight to the rice field, trekking through the thick mud in Pinto Makmur Village, Muara Batu, North Aceh District, Aceh.

There, he could no longer see his rice field. Roads, irrigation channels, and rice fields-once filled with golden stalks ready for harvest-had all been leveled into a vast expanse of mud.

"I cried. I was only five days away from harvest when the flood hit," he told ANTARA on January 24, 2026, as he recalled the devastating floods.

The November floods and landslides that struck three provinces of Sumatra-Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra-have tu...