Jakarta, Jan. 1 -- Devastating floods and landslides ravaged numerous districts and cities in Indonesia's Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra in late November 2025. Nature unleashed its fury, leaving over 1,000 dead, and it was not for any reason other than omission in the face of human-incited environmental degradation.

It is that interpretation of the disasters that President Prabowo Subianto drew from his repeated visits to Sumatra to directly lead emergency measures.

An investigation by the government's Forestry Regulation Enforcement (PKH) Task Force and the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) confirmed forest degradation in river headwaters as the chief factor behind the tragedy, as evidenced by the large logs left by the floo...