Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – A total of 2,341 natural disasters in 2017 killed 377 people and displaced around 3.5 million others, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, or BNPB, said on Friday (29/12).
A total of 787 floods and 716 typhoons wreaked havoc across the archipelago this year, along with 614 landslides, according to Sutopo Nugroho, a BNPB spokesman.
"Around 99 percent of the disasters was caused by hydrometeorology," Sutopo said.