"Rescuers are still trying to find more victims. The challenge is that the evacuation route is also damaged by the landslide," Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency, told al-Jazeera. "Conditions on the ground are pretty tough and we need heavy machines to clear the road that has been covered by the landslide."
Torrential rains caused the disaster on Friday afternoon, when a mudslide covered about 105 houses in the village of Jemblung in Banjarnegara district, about 450km from the nation's capital, Jakarta. According to Al-Jazeera, on Saturday 379 people had been taken to temporary shelters.
According to the BNPB, there is a chance of rains potentially causing more landslides and complicating the search mission. Earlier, the board reported that 11 individuals of those dead had been identified.
Indonesia's 17,500 islands are home to 250 million people, around half of whom live in areas that are susceptible to flooding. The country is currently experiencing its rainy season, in which heavy downpours frequently cause landslides and flash floods.
