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Indonesia Disaster displacement worsening 13 October 2026

Indonesia: 196,118 disaster-driven internal displacements between 2026-09-01 and 2026-09-30 (IDMC IDU)

Disaster-driven internal displacements per month (people)

According to IDMC's Internal Displacement Updates, deduplicated to one figure per event, 196,118 disaster-driven internal displacements were recorded in Indonesia across 10 events between 1 and 30 September 2026. This figure exceeds both the absolute floor of 50,000 and the 90th percentile of Indonesia's own monthly record over the previous 19 months, which stands at 71,333. Of the total, 195,372 displacements, dated 2 September and sourced to the Crisis Centre of the Ministry of Health, are recorded against the earthquake in East Nusa Tenggara of 15 August 2026. The next largest figure is 650 displacements linked to volcanic activity at Mt. Sinabung in Karo, North Sumatra, reported by the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB).

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How this fired

RuleDisplacement in a month against the country's own record
Period2026-09-01 to 2026-09-30
Displacement in the month196,118
Events in the month10
Months of history compared19
90th percentile of that history71,333
Judged againstan absolute floor of 50,000; the 90th percentile of the country's own record, 71,333. Fired on: abs_floor, history_percentile.
Detected13 October 2026, run 19

Evidence

IDMC Internal Displacement Updates, deduplicated to one figure per event Country page All alerts for Indonesia JSON
key displacement_window:IDN:disaster:2026-09