Three people were killed Tuesday when a 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia's Sumatra island, officials said. The quake struck deep underground shortly after midnight around 400 kilometres (250 ...

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Six and a half million acres. That’s the size of Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, one of the most ancient and biodiverse places ...

Rohingya refugees are pictured at a temporary shelter after they landed at Labu Pekan beach JAKARTA (Reuters) - About 146 Rohingya, including children, came ashore in Indonesia's North Sumatra ...

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North Sumatra runner Nella Agustin took home three golds from the Aceh-North Sumatra National Sports Week (PON). (ANTARA/Juraidi) She won gold in the women's 200-meter race on Friday (September 13, ...

The location of the Tripa peat swamps (circled) on the west coast of Aceh province, northern Sumatra, showing rivers, forest cover in 1990, peat, and district boundaries. Tripa is the site of a ...

TEMPO.CO, Banda Aceh - Former Chairperson of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), Otto Nur Abdullah, asserted that Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian's decision to include four ...

President Prabowo Subianto announced yesterday that the small atolls will pass from North Sumatra to Aceh, putting an end to a long-standing dispute. The issue concerns rich gas deposits discovered ...

NEW YORK, February 28, 2015 — Tari Aceh! an all-female group from Banda Aceh in Sumatra, Indonesia perform the traditional Acehnese dance. One of the hallmarks of this dance is a form of body ...

A road project at the northwestern tip of Sumatra poses the threats of deforestation and habitat fragmentation for a lowland forest that is home to critically endangered tigers, elephants and ...