Joint Team Still Looking For 67 Missing Victims In Palembayan Agam

The joint team from the National Police, TNI, Basarnas Palang Merah Indonesian (PMI) and volunteers are still trying to search for 67 victims who lost the impact of flash floods that hit Palembayan District, Agam Regency, West Sumatra.

Agam Police Chief AKBP Muari said a joint team from the National Police, TNI, Basarnas, PMI and volunteers were looking for 67 victims who were reported missing in Palembayan District.

"We are still searching for victims at a number of flash flood material points and along the Batang Nanggang River," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, December 9.

He said the search for victims using the excavator type of heavy equipment was 18 units.

Heavy equipment cleaning the flash flood material in the form of soil and wood materials that piled up in residents' houses.

"The joint team managed to find 157 victims dead in Palembayan District," he said.

He said the problem with finding victims was currently not there, but previously there were no obstacles related to the crowds of visitors or disaster tourism to the location to take a video or live on social media.

With this condition, the mobility of vehicles is quite crowded, thus disrupting heavy equipment and damtruk cars carrying materials to the disposal area.

"This is an obstacle that we face where there are quite a lot of vehicles entering the location, so there is a fairly long traffic jam. However, currently, the mobility of vehicles has started to be quiet after the road to our location is closed," he said.

He acknowledged that the high rainfall hit the area on 8-9 December 2025 and the rain occurred in the afternoon before the afternoon.

To overcome further flash floods, the process of searching for victims and cleaning up materials is stopped when it rains.

"We are stopping the cleaning and searching process before it rains for safety," he said.

18 units of heavy equipment were deployed in Palembayan District. However, only 20 units were deployed.

"The 20 units of the dam truck are only for Nagari or Salareh Aia and Salareh Aia Timur villages, none yet exist," he said.