By Achmad Rizki MuazamAyat S. KarokaroTaufik Wijaya NORTH SUMATRA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s environment ministry on Dec. 6 suspended private sector activity in a crucial high conservation value ...

In a small swath of tropical rainforest in northern Sumatra, a corporation’s quest for a rare mineral endangers a rare animal ...

Tapanuli orangutans survive only in Indonesia’s Sumatran rainforest where a mine expansion will cut through their home. Yet the mining company says the alternative will be worse ...

One of the world’s biggest pulp and paper companies has acknowledged to Mongabay a potential breach of its no-deforestation ...

Ruinous floods and landslides have killed more than 900 people on Indonesia's island of Sumatra, the country's disaster management agency said on Saturday, with fears that starvation could send the ...

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Indonesia’s government has been at pains to stress that the recent catastrophe in Sumatra was triggered by a rare meteorological event. Cyclone Senyar formed in the Malacca Strait, an area where the ...

Ruinous floods and landslides have killed more than 900 people on Indonesia's island of Sumatra, the country's disaster management agency said Saturday, with fears that starvation could send the death ...

More rain threated Indonesia's flood-ravaged island of Sumatra, where an official said starvation threated to raise the death toll - Copyright AFP AMANDA JUFRIAN More ...

Ruinous floods and landslides have killed more than 900 people on Indonesia's island of Sumatra, the country's disaster management agency said Saturday, with fears that starvation could send the toll ...