Only during the past 20 years or so has scientific evidence begun to outweigh speculation as a new generation of researchers has tracked the elusive apes across the islands of Borneo and Sumatra ...

Fishing is important in the Indonesian archipelago, which is made up of more than 17,000 islands, the second-largest of which is Sumatra. Rugged West Sumatra, where rainforest clings to the ...

Photo by Pablo Sinovas (2025.) On a two-day trek through the jungle in North Sumatra, researcher Pablo Sinovas was stopped in his tracks by a “vibrant” creature sitting on the trail ...

1 - Establishment of the World Heritage List in Danger (Inscribed Properties) 2011 35COM 7B.16 - Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra (Indonesia) (N 1167) 2010 34COM 7B.14 - Tropical Rainforest ...

TEMPO.CO, Padang - Mount Marapi in West Sumatra has experienced another eruption, discharging volcanic ash into the ...

In 2005, an 8.6-magnitude earthquake jolted the western coast of Sumatra, killing about 1,000 people and destroying hundreds of buildings. In 2006, lobbyist Jack Abramoff, with ties to several ...

A video of an altercation between Megawati Zebua and a Wings Air flight attendant recently went viral on social media. In the ...

A court in Indonesia has sentenced a man to five years in prison for the killing of a critically endangered Sumatran tiger in September last year in North Sumatra province. “As far as I know ...