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 ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler Indonesia’s government has been at pains to stress that the recent catastrophe in Sumatra was triggered ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The central government is currently assessing infrastructure damage across Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra following ...

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 ...

The Ministry of Public Works and Housing is preparing 500 Simple Healthy Instant Houses for flood victims in Sumatra.

Indonesian environmental activists say the floods and landslides that have devastated parts of Sumatra have been made worse by extensive deforestation driven by the approval of hundreds of extractive ...

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 ...