How decades of deforestation led to catastrophic Sumatra floods

JAKARTA: About a week after floods and landslides devastated three provinces in Indonesia’s Sumatra island, Rubama witnessed firsthand how the deluge left not only debris and rubble but also log after log of timber. They were the first thing that she saw when she arrived in the Beutong Ateuh Banggalang district of Aceh, where at least two villages were wiped out by floodwaters. “We saw these neatly cut logs moving down the river. Some were uprooted from the ground, but there are logs cut into specific sizes.

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