How Severe Is Indonesia’s Humanitarian Crisis?

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00:00Jono, one million people have actually been evacuated.

00:03I think just to put that humanitarian crisis into context is huge.

00:09It's huge, but also 500,000 people are missing.

00:12So a death toll of 700 is a very, unfortunately, it's a lowball estimate

00:18on how many are going to actually have perished in this as well.

00:21But we're talking exactly like Gemma said,

00:23villages that have been completely unreachable by foot or any other means.

00:26The bridges are gone, the roads are destroyed.

00:28The humanitarian crisis that will now ensue is going to be astronomical.

00:32Hospitals are simply overwhelmed.

00:34We don't know what the situation is like with hospitals

00:36which are within areas which have been completely cut off

00:38because we've got no communication with them.

00:40And the operation is stretched across these three different provinces as well.

00:44So it's, yes, one of the largest natural disasters Indonesia

00:47and the region, in fact, has faced in years.

00:49But the scale of the emergency response is absolutely enormous here.

00:53And it will require the entire world to come to the fore to support this.

00:58At a time like that.

00:59And again, there's a lot of speculation as regards

01:01what may have caused this.

01:03And Indonesia, for one, has fallen victim of the last couple of years

01:06of massive deforestation.

01:08Thank you for the fire.

01:10Thank you, Anthony.

01:12Thank you for the support of this.

01:13Thank you, Anthony.

01:15And I will see you next time.

01:17Have a good day.