By Aida Greenbury It was 27 December 2004. I was sitting at my computer in my office in Jakarta, Indonesia, my mind busy with ...

Jambi, a city of over 600 thousand people on the western side of Indonesia’s Sumatra island, is around 20 km from a number of extremely large active fires that have choked the area in heavy smoke ...

On the island of Sumatra, oil palm farmers blame a pair of translocated elephants for a rampage they say caused the worst damage to their crops in a decade. The two bull elephants were translocated in ...

By Junaidi HanafiahSarjan LahayTeguh Suprayitno MERANGIN, Indonesia — There wasn’t much Aris Adrianto felt he could do when the gold miners’ heavy vehicles broke into Bukit Gajah Berani, here in this ...

The Indonesian government has temporarily restricted trade with China in the wake of the global outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease, The move has hit the shrimp-fishing community in Sumatra’s ...

Indonesia’s Culture Ministry has designated nine traditions from Jambi Province as Intangible Cultural Heritage, highlighting ...

In Sumatra, Indonesia, deforestation threatens globally significant tropical forests and biodiversity. To address the drivers of deforestation across a variety of sectors, the government is developing ...

JAKARTA — The Indonesian meteorology agency said on Sunday (Sept 22) that a phenomenon called Mie scattering had resulted in red skies over the country’s Jambi province over the weekend. The red skies ...

The sky over a province of Indonesia turned into dark blood red over the weekend following a surge of forest fires throughout the country. Social media users captured the smoky haze, which was caused ...