
Rains hamper Indonesia efforts to aid earthquake survivors
Thousands in the cities of Majene and Mamuju are displaced as the government struggles to deliver basic aid.
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of more than seventeen thousand islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo (Kalimantan) and New Guinea (Papua). Indonesia is the world's largest island country and the 14th-largest country by land area, at 1,904,569 square kilometres. With over 267 million people, it is the world's 4th-most populous country as well as the most populous Muslim-majority country. Java, the world's most populous island, is home to more than half of the country's population.
Thousands in the cities of Majene and Mamuju are displaced as the government struggles to deliver basic aid.
Buildings were reduced to piles of bricks and all that remained of a shopping centre was a crumpled shell.
Dozens of people were killed and hundreds more injured after a powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia’s Sulawesi..