By Achmad Rizki MuazamAyat S. KarokaroTaufik Wijaya NORTH SUMATRA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s environment ministry on Dec. 6 ...
Indonesia's Sumatra island will require 51.82 trillion rupiah ($3.11 billion) in reconstruction and recovery funds following ...
Rescuers are hampered by damaged bridges and roads and a lack of heavy equipment after flash floods and landslides on ...
Indonesia reports 995 dead and 226 missing as extreme weather and land degradation worsen the disaster impact.
Rescue workers in Indonesia are struggling to reach victims in several devastated areas that were hit by an earthquake and ...
The authorities have partly blamed the scale of devastation from the floods on uncontrolled logging. Read more at ...
A Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape, has been discovered dead in mud and log debris in a village in northern ...
Only scientifically classified as a species in 2017, tapanulis are incredibly rare, with fewer than 800 left in the wild, ...
PT Pelni waives the shipping costs of 47 TEU containers filled with logistics aid sent to various regions in Sumatra.
The Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of South Sumatra has declared a flood and landslide alert in five ...
Environmentalists say that the flash floods and landslides in Sumatra have been worsened by years of logging linked to mining ...
Indonesia will revoke mining permits if companies are found to have violated rules on flood-ravaged Sumatra island, the ...