Jambi (ANTARA Jambi) - Floods submerged two elementary school buildings in Batanghari District, Jambi Province, Sumatra Island, on Saturday.
The rising waters also cut off roads to schools in five sub-districts, said Hadramin Nida, the head of the Batanghari education and culture office, here on Saturday.
January and February are the peak months of the rainy season in Indonesia, which often results in flooding across several areas of the country.
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNBP) reported that, currently, floods have affected areas in Sulawesi, Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Java Island.
The North Sulawesi Province has been the worst struck area due to floods. Over the last two days, 16 people died, three went missing, and at least 40 thousand residents were displaced in the aftermath of the flooding.
Some areas of Jakarta, Indonesia's capital city, have also been flooded over the past week, claiming at least five lives and displacing thousands of people.(Ant)