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Across the Indonesian island of Sumatra, entire communities remain trapped. Months after the devastating floods of November 2025, families are still displaced, aid distribution remains uneven, and ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - State electricity company, PLN, reported a disruption in the electrical system in northern and central Sumatra that triggered a major power outage in parts of the island on Friday ...

A Sumatran orangutan has been filmed for the first time using a human-made canopy bridge to cross a public road on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, conservationists said Monday. Subscribe to read ...

A powerful earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck off Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Indonesia earthquake: Authorities ...

A powerful 6.1-magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Tuesday. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the tremor occurred 65 kilometres southeast of Sinabang. Indonesia is ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) recorded an increase in the death toll from the Sumatra disaster on Thursday, December 18, 2025. Flash floods and ...

ACEH: Residents of Indonesia’s Aceh province have put up white flags to signal they can no longer cope with conditions three weeks after Cyclone Senyar battered three provinces in Sumatra. More than 1 ...

JAKARTA, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto said on Monday that activities in areas on Sumatra that were hit by deadly floods may return to normal in the next two to three ...

Cyclone Senyar was an unusually rare event for Sumatra, but the scale of destruction cannot be explained by weather alone. Decades of deforestation, mining, plantations, and peat drainage left ...

Mon, December 15, 2025 Published on Dec. 14, 2025 Published on 2025-12-14T19:54:48+07:00 he death toll from the floods that hit northern and western parts of Sumatra late last month has reached more ...