On Java, the main island of Indonesia, a landslip claimed at least seven lives and left over 80 missing, according to a disaster official on Saturday.

At around 2:30 in the morning, a landslip caused by intense rain damaged homes in a community in the West Bandung district.


According to Abdul Muhari, a spokesman for the national disaster agency, or BNPB, "a landslip occurred in West Bandung Regency, West Java Province, in the early hours of Saturday, killing seven people."

He continued, "As of Saturday, 10:30 am, 83 people were still being searched for, and dozens of residents were reported safe."


In Indonesia, landslides and floods are frequent during the rainy season, which normally lasts from October to March.

Late last year, tropical storms and heavy monsoon rains pummelling regions of South and Southeast Asia, causing fatal landslides and floods from Sri Lanka's highland plantations to Indonesia's Sumatra jungles.

The BNPB estimates that the Sumatra flood killed about 1,200 persons and displaced over 240,000.