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At least 22 people were killed by a landslide in Bengkulu province.A family of six died in a landslide in Lampung province.More than 12,000 people have had to flee their homes.

Torrential monsoon rains have led to floods and landslides that have killed more than three dozen people in Indonesia, the country's disaster agency said Monday.

In the Bengkulu province on the island of Sumatra, more than 12,000 people have been driven from their homes by the flooding, according to the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management. there over the weekend.

A landslide in central Bengkulu killed 22 people, the agency said. Two while playing in a flooded area near Bengkulu City, The Independent reported.

A family of six people was killed in a landslide, AFP reported.

The disaster agency said getting aid to everyone affected is difficult because many roads have been washed out or blocked. Electricity is also cut off to many areas.

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Flooding last week in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, killed two people and displaced more than 2,250. It also resulted in that were being kept as pets, AFP reported. Six of the snakes were recaptured.

Illegal coal mining is partly to blame for the landslides, officials said, because of deforestation and loosened soil.

"Apart from natural factors like the heavy rain, [the flooding] was also caused by human activity that destroys the environment," disaster agency head Doni Monardo told reporters in Bengkulu on Monday.

"The flooding in Bengkulu was made worse by the severe damage ... caused by coal mining," Ali Akbar from local environmental group Kanopi Bengkulu said in a statement.

Buildings are submerged after heavy rain caused flooding in Bengkulu on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Saturday, April 27, 2019.

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Illegal mining was blamed for killing dozens on the island of Sulawesi in March when a makeshift mine collapsed.

Last month, after torrential rains pounded Indonesia's Papua region, triggering landslides and flash floods.