The Indonesian government has announced what it describes as a sweeping, science-based effort to reassess environmental ...

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

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

AT the time of writing, more than 900 lives have been lost in the November 2025 floods in Sumatra, and many more people remain missing. Entire valleys have been reshaped by violent torrents of water ...

From migration to ecology, new knowledge makes new cartographic demands In May, as part of his campaign to annex Canada, President Donald Trump called the border with his neighbour an artificial line ...

Devastating floods and landslides hit Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra at the end of November, following prolonged heavy rains. (AFP pic) Malaysia will channel a contribution of RM500 each to ...

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One of the world’s largest Buddhist monuments, which measures some 30,000 square feet, sits in the lush Kedu Valley on the Indonesian island of Java, where the forests teem with mangoes. The Borobudur ...

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Bima Arya Sugiarto, confirmed that the central government is currently assessing infrastructure damage across Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra ...

Millions of people affected by torrential rainfall in Sri Lanka and large parts of Indonesia’s Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia How cyclones and monsoon rains combined to devastate ...