Among the affected villages were Karangjompo, Tegaldowo, Mulyorejo, and Jeruksari, Head of the Pekalongan Disaster Mitigation Office (BPBD) Bambang Sujatmiko stated, here, Wednesday.

The villages are located in the coastal area and often get inundated by tidal and rain-triggered floods, according to Sujatmiko.

"They are used to facing this condition. However, their activities as Batik makers are now affected (by the flooding)," he noted.

Some 400 houses were submerged in floodwaters reaching a height of up to 40 centimeters, Kuntari, an official of Tegaldowo village, remarked.

Indonesia is currently headed towards the peak of the rainy season that has caused flooding in several regions, including in West Sumatra, Bangka Belitung, West, Central and East Java, Jambi, and Aceh.

In the meantime, the death toll in landslides and floods in West Sumatra province rose to six after a search and rescue team recovered the body of a resident who was reported missing earlier.

The body of the 65-year-old resident, identified as M Yunus, was found from the same place as the four bodies recovered earlier, acting chief of the West Sumatra Provincial Disaster Mitigation Board, Zulfiatno, said.
"The team is still on the lookout for one missing victim, identified as Refa," he said.

According to the board, landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains affected the districts of Solok Selatan, Solok, Limapuluh Kota, Agam, Tanah Datar, Dharmasraya, Sijunjung and Pasaman and the municipalities of Solok and Sawahlunto.