Reeling from a cyclone that may have erased a chunk of its population, the Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape ...

Indonesian officials visited Sumatra after devastating floods killed over 1,000 people on the island in December 2025 -- the ...

One of the worst natural disasters took place on December 26, 2004 following one of the strongest earthquakes in the oceans.

Only scientifically classified as a species in 2017, tapanulis are incredibly rare, with fewer than 800 left in the wild, ...

Indonesia reports 995 dead and 226 missing as extreme weather and land degradation worsen the disaster impact.

The magnitude of the disaster that hit three provinces is more of a result from land use change and spatial planning in ...

Timber carried by flash floods offered stark evidence of deforestation. The forests at the headwaters of major river basins ...

Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) is supplying satellite imagery to accelerate disaster response and ...

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has mapped out areas prone to heavy rainfall during the Christmas and New Year holiday period, ...

The immediate threat from Sumatra’s floods and landslides may be over, but for many survivors the ordeal is only just beginning.

Indonesia estimates that restoring infrastructure damaged by floods and landslides in Sumatra will require around Rp51 ...

OJK has eased loan and insurance rules for borrowers hit by major floods and landslides in three Sumatra provinces.