On Monday, the destroyed remnants of the home were filled with debris, a Reuters witness said.
Olva Sumual, the home’s caretaker, said its residents were the elderly, and about 30 people had been in the complex.
An initial police report said an electrical fault caused the fire but officials later said the cause was still under investigation.
Deadly fires are not uncommon in Indonesia, a Southeast Asian archipelago of more than 17,000 islands.
A fire tore through a seven-storey office building in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta this month, killing at least 22 people.
In 2023, at least 12 people were killed in the country’s east after an explosion at a nickel-processing plant.
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