Indonesian authorities have revealed that at least 18 people died in two separate landslides in two different regions of Central Java, while 33 remained missing.
According to chief of the search and rescue agency’s local division, the Cilacap landslide has killed at least 16 people, with 7 missing, said M Abdullah.
Footage from news channel KompasTV showed excavators were deployed to dig through dirt in Cilacap
Separately, two people died and 27 were missing after a landslide on Saturday in the region of Banjarnegara in Central Java, the disaster mitigation agency said on Monday. As many as 30 houses as well as farms were damaged, it said.
The local head of the disaster management agency also said that in Banjarnegara regency of Central Java, two bodies have been recovered, while 26 more are suspected to be buried under the soil following a landslide on Saturday.
Heavy seasonal rain from about October to March frequently causes flooding and landslides in Indonesia, an archipelago of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile floodplains.

