JAKARTA – Indonesia’s central government will support the plans of several regions to forgo fireworks while celebrating New Year this week, in solidarity with the victims of recent floods on the island of Sumatra, an official in the president’s office said on Dec 29 .

Several governments and police forces, including those in the capital Jakarta and on the popular tourist island of Bali, have said that they will not allow firework displays out of respect for the victims on Sumatra, where floods and landslides have killed more than 1,100 people, with around 400,000 still displaced.