Landslide Decides Padang Access To Bukittinggi In Anai Valley, Disrupted Citizen Mobility And Logistics

The police helped clean up landslide material in the Anai Valley area, Tanah Datar Regency, Thursday (27/11/2025). (Between)

PADANG - Padang Panjang City Resort Police (Polres), West Sumatra (West Sumatra), reported that Padang-Bukittinggi road access was cut off due to landslides in the Anai Valley area on Thursday, November 27 in the morning.

"There are two landslide points on the Anai Valley route each on the Silgalang Kariang climb and the Mega Mendung bath," said Padang Panjang Police Traffic Head AKP Pifzen Finot, quoted by Antara, Thursday morning.

Apart from landslides, he continued, there were also fallen trees in two different locations. The first incident occurred at around 03.00 WIB in the Singgalang Kariang climbing area, where landslide material in the form of piles of soil and tree trunks covered the entire road, so that vehicles from both directions could not be passed.

A few hours later a similar incident occurred again at around 06.00 WIB in the Mega Mendung bathing area, Padang City Highway, Bukittinggi City. The impact of the two incidents was that the mobility of residents and logistics had stopped.

"The closure occurred at two points which are close to each other so that the intercity connecting access could not be used for a while," he said.

After the incident, joint officers from the police and related agencies were on standby at the disaster scene to clean up landslides, and evacuate fallen trees.

"We urge the public to use alternative routes until the process of normalizing the route is complete," he said.

Separately, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) of the Minangkabau Meteorological Station, Padang Pariaman, West Sumatra Province, has reminded the public to be aware of the potential for extreme weather in the province which is expected to continue until November 29, 2025.

Head of BMKG Minangkabau Class II Meteorological Station, Desindra Deddy Kurniawan, said the extreme weather warning was related to the presence of 95B tropical cyclone seeds identified since November 21, 2025, in the Malacca Strait east of Aceh waters.

This condition, he said, triggered a pattern of meeting wind currents or air masses in West Sumatra and the Ocean Dipole Index (IOD) with negative value, thereby increasing the supply of water vapor and humidity which caused unstable atmospheric conditions.