🇮🇩 Thousands of residents from Bener Meriah and Takengon, Aceh, trek miles on slippery, muddy paths, to buy fuel and basic necessities (15 Dec 2025).
The main land route (Simpang KKA Road) between North Aceh and Bener Meriah/central Aceh was damaged by the catastrophic floods and landslides.
🇮🇩💔 CNN Indonesia journalist Irene Whardanie broke down live on air from Aceh Tamiang, Indonesia.
After more than three weeks since the disaster, she reported that nothing has meaningfully changed. Children are going hungry, standing by the roadside waiting for food that isn’t coming.
She couldn’t hold back tears seeing the conditions or the slow response.
Residents asked journalists to tell the truth about what’s happening, not to soften it or cover it up.