Project Initiative:

Nature-Based Recovery Initiative in Northern Sumatera

Friends of Andalas is a coalition initiative convened by The Landscape Group to accelerate mid- and long-term recovery in Aceh, North Sumatera, and West Sumatera. Across the three provinces, the floods and landslides were not only a humanitarian crisis; they were a governance and delivery test. Extreme rainfall met structurally degraded watersheds, exposed settlements and infrastructure concentrated along river corridors and coastal plains, and revealed how quickly risk compounds when land-use change, weak enforcement, and fragmented investment collide.

The purpose of Friends of Andalas is to reduce disaster risk while restoring livelihoods by strengthening the ecological and socio-economic foundations of recovery across priority landscapes in Aceh, North Sumatera, and West Sumatera. Its objective is to create a trusted coordination table and a high-integrity delivery pipeline that enables partners to move faster from commitments to implementation — with clear sequencing, safeguard readiness, and measurable outcomes.