The new Sumatra map. Click image to visit the interactive version of the map. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and a coalition of Indonesian environmental groups known as Eyes on the Forest have released ...

Cyclone Senyar hit South and Southeast Asian countries in late November. In Indonesia, the island of Sumatra, especially its northern parts, took the worst hit.

Despite many years of research in conservation biology, precise maps of tropical deforestation that document the global spatial extent of tropical forests destruction are generally not available ...

There is a new mapping tool that documents the disturbing loss of forest cover in Sumatra Island in Indonesia. Sumatra, one of the largest islands in the world, is known to be the only place where ...

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 ...

The Sippongang River Valley remains covered in primary forest due to local fears of the orang bunian. Credit: Gregory McCann Subscribe for ads-free reading “We don’t go up to the mountain tops,” the ...

AGAM, Indonesia — Improved weather on Saturday helped rescuers on Indonesia's Sumatra island recover more bodies as they struggled to reach several areas that were hit by landslides and flash floods ...

The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of December 26, 2004, was an event of stunning proportions, both in its human dimensions–nearly 300,000 lives lost–and as a geological phenomenon. The sudden ...

SINGAPORE — The Buraq is said to have transported the Prophet Muhammad on his over-night journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and back. It is described as having a white body half-mule and half-donkey, the ...

Indonesia's military stepped up its relief efforts in three provinces on Sumatra island devastated by deadly floods and ...