As the waters begin to recede across Sumatra, what lingers is something far colder than the floods that swept through Aceh, darker than the landslides in North Sumatra and more unsettling than the rubble left behind in West Sumatra at the close of 2025. It is the chill of bureaucratic silence and the paralysis of […] The post Indonesia’s white-flag shame in flood-ravaged Sumatra appeared first on Asia Times .