Aerial photo of Lake Toba from the tourist area of Tele tower of view in Turpuk Limbong, Harian, Samosir Regency, North Sumatra, Sunday, February 21, 2021. Visitors can enjoy the panoramic beauty of ...

Severe flooding and landslides in Sumatra last week caused extensive damage and casualties, but destinations remain open for ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Local government officials and residents living around Lake Toba, North Sumatra province, have started removing water hyacinth from the lake as part of preparations for hosting the ...

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Wed, February 27, 2019 Published on Feb. 27, 2019 Published on 2019-02-27T12:22:23+07:00 he North Sumatra administration is pessimistic about achieving the Tourism Ministry’s target of one million ...

TOBA REGENCY, Indonesia — Roads, albeit small, are well paved in Balige, the capital of Toba Regency in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Passing by, one can see from either side of the road rolling hills or ...

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has established a special authority to revive tourism in Lake Toba, North Sumatra. Environmentalists worry the plan could lead to forest clearance and exacerbate a ...

On the Indonesian island of Sumatra, there is a large lake that used to be a mountain. How is it that a mountain becomes a lake? Simple: It erupts. This mountain on Sumatra unleashed an utterly ...

The first humans arrived in Indonesia thousands of years before previously thought—which could mean they were present for an eruption at the Lake Toba supervolcano just over 71,000 years ago. Newly ...

A catastrophic drop in atmospheric ozone levels around the tropics some 75,000 years ago caused a bottleneck in the human population, a study concluded. Ozone levels fell by half as a result of the ...