Rescuers on a remote Indonesian island are still searching for dozens of people still missing after a landslide struck a remote Indonesian island on Tuesday. So far, 15 people have been found dead.
Rescuers are in dire straits due to bad weather and severe communication lines.
Borneo and the remote island of Serasane, between Borneo and the Natuna region of Peninsular Malaysia, are home to about 8,000 people.
Pictures provided by Natuna`s Communications and Information Agency showed houses reduced to rubble, with fallen trees and torn roofs.
About 30 houses along the road were buried, according to searchers
The agency is sending food and tents, as well as satellite communications equipment and two helicopters to establish lines of communication and speed up aid.
Indonesia`s monsoons are prone to landslides, exacerbated by deforestation in some places, and prolonged torrential rains that cause flooding in various parts of the archipelago.
Climate change is likely to worsen the country`s weather-related disasters, experts say.
Flooding further south in the Banjar district of Indonesian Borneo, inundated more than 17,000 homes and disrupted life for a month.
