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Indonesia Disaster displacement worsening 13 October 2026

Indonesia: 176,554 disaster-driven internal displacements between 2026-08-01 and 2026-08-31 (IDMC IDU)

Disaster-driven internal displacements per month (people)

According to IDMC's Internal Displacement Updates, between 1 and 31 August 2026 Indonesia recorded 176,554 disaster-driven internal displacements across 9 events. This figure exceeds both the platform's 50,000 floor and 87,402, the 90th percentile of the country's own monthly record over the previous 18 months. The largest event listed is the earthquake in East Nusa Tenggara on 15 August 2026, reported by the Crisis Centre of the Ministry of Health. Smaller floods were recorded in West Sumatra, North Sumatra and Central Sulawesi, and volcanic activity at Mt. Sinabung in North Sumatra.

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How this fired

RuleDisplacement in a month against the country's own record
Period2026-08-01 to 2026-08-31
Displacement in the month176,554
Events in the month9
Months of history compared18
90th percentile of that history87,402
Judged againstan absolute floor of 50,000; the 90th percentile of the country's own record, 87,402. Fired on: abs_floor, history_percentile.
Detected13 October 2026, run 34

Evidence

IDMC Internal Displacement Updates, deduplicated to one figure per event Country page All alerts for Indonesia JSON
key displacement_window:IDN:disaster:2026-08