A radical new policy to relocate people living in a notoriously deforested national park on Sumatra has moved hundreds of families to date, with Indonesian officials presenting the controversial ...

Reducing flood risk in Sumatra requires more than technical fixes or post-disaster responses. It calls for a shift in ...

As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed! any observers have linked the Sumatra floods in late 2025 to extreme rainfall associated with ...

Permits revoked, lawsuits filed, the threat of state takeovers. Deadly flooding in Indonesia has prompted unprecedented government action against companies accused of environmental destruction that ...

Malaysia could be in for a hotter year ahead – maybe even the hottest on record – with an El Nino possibly materialising in the second half of 2026.

SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean court will rule Thursday on insurrection charges against ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol, ...

Armed with a machete, some sticky gum and a recording of birdsong on his phone, “Peni” makes his way into the forest. He’s searching for songbirds in the Sumatran jungle, specifically the white-rumped ...

JAKARTA: An independent survey found 330 landslides upstream of the Garoga and Siondop rivers after the rare tropical cyclone ...

The Indonesian Ministry of Forestry has mapped regions prone to forest and land fires to mitigate fire incidents, with a primary focus on Sumatra and ...

Post-disaster recovery in flood- and landslide-hit regions across Sumatra, Indonesia is nearly 70% complete, with 37 of the ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - President Prabowo Subianto revoked the permits of 28 companies suspected of causing environmental damage. This damage has worsened the impact of disasters in three regions of ...

The floods and landslides that hit three provinces of Sumatra—Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra—in late November 2025 not ...