Protests have erupted in Aceh Province on the northern tip of Sumatra island, where anger and frustration are mounting over ...

December 26th has been a date marked by events of profound impact and wide-ranging significance across the globe. From ...

At low tide along Padang’s coastline, fishing boats sit idle, not because of rough seas, but because the water is clogged ...

Tapanuli orangutans survive only in Indonesia’s Sumatran rainforest where a mine expansion will cut through their home. Yet the mining company says the alternative will be worse A small brown line ...

As the floodwaters in Sumatra started to recede, the full extent of the devastation became painfully clear: more than 800 lives lost, over 3.2 million people affected and entire communities left ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The BNPB (National Disaster Management Agency) reported the death toll due to floods and landslides in three provinces of Sumatra, Indonesia, until Sunday, December 7, 2025, has ...

ACEH TAMIANG, Indonesia, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Residents in the Indonesian region of Aceh Tamiang climbed over slippery logs and walked for about an hour on Saturday to get aid, as the death toll from ...

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JAKARTA: Indonesia will summon eight companies suspected of contributing to deadly flooding in North Sumatra’s Batang Toru watershed as part of efforts to trace the large number of logs swept away by ...

An excavator dredges mud carried by floodwaters to open road access in Nanggalo Korong Gadang Sub-district, Padang City, West Sumatra on Sunday, November 30, 2025. ANTARA/HO-BNPB/rst Jakarta (ANTARA) ...

JAKARTA -- The death toll from heavy storms across three Indonesian provinces on Sumatra has jumped to more than 400 with a similar number still missing and 290,000 people evacuated as the impact of ...