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Flash Floods Bring Logs from Upstream

Monday, December 8, 2025

Timber carried by flash floods offered stark evidence of deforestation. The forests at the headwaters of major river basins had been severely damaged.

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Piles of logs covering Air Tawar Beach, Padang, West Sumatra, November 28, 2025. Antara/Iggoy el Fitra. tempo : 177077871321.

WHATEVER people called them—rotting wood, fallen trees, or logs left from clearing sites—it made no difference to Andre Bustamar. For the Research Manager at the West Sumatra chapter of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi), they are all tree stumps. What matters more, he said, was the alarming sight of thousands of those stumps swept away by the galodo, or flash floods, that tore through West Sumatra on Tuesday, Novem

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Andi Adam Faturahman from Batang Toru contributed to the writing of this article.

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