Jakarta , Indonesia ( CNN ) -- Severe floods in northern Indonesia have left at least 13 people dead and driven tens of thousands of others from their homes in recent days , authorities said Thursday . Landslides and rising waters have cut off several villages in one district of the province of North Sulawesi province , leaving about 1,000 residents stranded , the Indonesian National Disaster Mitigation Agency ( NDMA ) said . Heavy rains started drenching the region Tuesday and have resulted in about 40,000 people leaving their homes to seek temporary shelter , according to the NDMA . Most of the deaths in North Sulawesi were reported Wednesday , authorities said , and two people are still missing . Power is down in most parts of the region and communication lines are disrupted . There are four main rivers in Manado , the provincial capital , that are overflowing , the NDMA said . This year 's floods are far worse than previous ones , NDMA spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said . The agency is working with the military , police , the search and rescue agency , Indonesian Red Cross and other groups as well as volunteers to help the tens of thousands of people affected by the flooding . Heavy rains have also caused deadly landslides and flooding this week on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao -- roughly 500 kilometers ( 320 miles ) north of North Sulawesi . A low pressure area has battered parts of Mindanao with wind and rain since the weekend , leaving 26 people dead and displacing more than 200,000 , according to Philippine authorities . That weather system , along with another over northern Australia , helped generate the heavy rains over North Sulawesi , Indonesian authorities said . CNN 's Kathy Quiano reported from Jakarta , and Jethro Mullen reported and wrote from Hong Kong .
About 1,000 residents are stranded in villages isolated by the flooding . Indonesian authorities say two people are still missing . The disaster agency says the floods are worse than in previous years . They are partly caused by a weather system that has left 26 dead in the Philippines .