PadangBukittinggi Access Terdepat Akibat Luapan Sungai Batang Anai

A number of local residents helped direct road drivers to turn around as a result of flooding in the Usang Market area, Batang Anai District, Padang Pariaman Regency, Thursday (11/27/2025). (ANTARA)

Padang-Kota Bukittinggi City road access, West Sumatra Province (West Sumatra), stalled following the overflow of the Batang Anai River, precisely in the Usang Market area, Batang Anai District, Padang Pariaman Regency.

"It cannot be passed. Me and other motorists have been forced to stop since 07.00 WIB," said one of Doni's truck drivers, quoted by Antara, Thursday, November 27.

Around the location, the water level due to the overflow of the Batang Anai River is estimated to reach 40 to 50 centimeters. Several two-wheeled vehicles that were desperate to break through experienced a strike and were forced by motorists to push their vehicles to a safer location.

Doni said he planned to go to the Biaro area, Ampek Angkek District, Agam Regency to deliver 500 three kilograms of subsidized LPG cylinders. However, the condition of the road covered by the flood does not allow it to be traversed because it is very risky.

Meanwhile, Fandi, a resident from Padang City, said that he plans to go to the Malak District, Agam Regency to cover the flash flood disaster that occurred on Wednesday (26/11). However, the flood conditions that occurred in the Usang Market area hampered road access.

"It cannot be passed. If forced, it is very risky," said the LKBN journalist ANTARA.

A number of local residents together with the police were on guard at the location of the flood point and directed motorists and drivers to turn towards the city of Padang due to impossible conditions.

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.