Best known as the home of the world’s rarest great ape, the mountainous Batang Toru forest landscape on the island of Sumatra ...

The Asian monsoon is currently intensifying the flow of moist air into Indonesia, increasing the likelihood of heavy rainfall ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian National Geospatial Information Agency (BIG) has updated the map of Indonesian territory. The new 2025 edition of the map includes changes in the borders with ...

Indonesian officials visited Sumatra after devastating floods killed over 1,000 people on the island in December 2025 -- the ...

For much of prehistory, Southeast Asia was not a scattering of islands separated by shallow seas. It was a single, immense landmass—low, fertile, and threaded with rivers—stretching from the Asian ...

At ‍least ‍14 people were killed after being swept away by flash floods in Indonesia's North Sulawesi, an ‌official said on ...

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

JAKARTA, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto said on Monday that activities in areas on Sumatra that were hit by deadly floods may return to normal in the next two to three ...

Indonesia is confronting its deadliest natural disaster in more than two decades as floods and landslides ravage Sumatra, overwhelming local authorities and prompting scrutiny of how President Prabowo ...

Mon, December 15, 2025 Published on Dec. 14, 2025 Published on 2025-12-14T19:54:48+07:00 he death toll from the floods that hit northern and western parts of Sumatra late last month has reached more ...

JAKARTA/MEDAN – The death toll from the floods that hit northern and western parts of Sumatra late last month has reached more than 1,000 people over the weekend, as regions extended their emergency ...