苏门答腊西部遭塞尼亚尔气旋洪水侵袭三周后，死亡人数已超过1,000人、约150,000所房屋受损、近100万人流离失所；科学家称其为70年一遇事件。

尽管官方仍拒绝宣布“国家灾难”（此举将赋予紧急权力并更易接受外援），但重建成本预计达52万亿印尼盾（31亿美元），同时仍有数百人失踪、疾病在社区受困之际扩散。

环保人士认为毁林放大了洪水：自2001年以来苏门答腊已失去440万公顷森林（面积约相当于丹麦），主要源于棕榈油扩张与非法采伐；而气候变化提高极端天气发生频率，在一份年报中印尼的自然灾害脆弱性全球排名第三。

Three weeks after Cyclone Senyar flooded western Sumatra, more than 1,000 people are dead, around 150,000 homes are damaged, and nearly 1m are displaced; scientists call it a once-in-70-year event.

Officials still refuse a national-disaster designation that would unlock emergency powers and ease foreign aid, even as 52trn rupiah ($3.1bn) is projected for rebuilding, hundreds remain missing, and disease is spreading amid stranded communities.

Environmentalists argue deforestation amplified the floods: since 2001 Sumatra has lost 4.4m hectares of forest—roughly Denmark’s area—largely to palm oil and illegal logging, while climate change raises the frequency of extremes in a country ranked third globally for disaster vulnerability.

Source: The botched response to a devastating storm infuriates Indonesians

Subtitle: Nationalism impeded the arrival of help from abroad

Dateline: 12月 18, 2025 05:43 上午 | Singapore