Sri Yuni Pardede

Sri Yuni Pardede, a 20-year-old mother living in North Tapanuli, North Sumatra, Indonesia, is newsworthy due to her experience surviving recent cyclone-induced floods and landslides. These natural disasters have devastated the region, destroying villages, displacing hundreds of thousands of people, and cutting off wide areas. Pardede fled with her baby as landslides struck her community. The floods and landslides have flattened homes, leaving families in fear and searching for missing loved ones who were either carried away by floodwaters or buried under mud. Pardede's experience highlights the immediate danger and long-term impact of the disaster on the affected communities in North Sumatra.