Jakarta has pledged US$3.6 billion and a special agency to help restore homes and public facilities destroyed in last month’s ...

Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto said on Monday that activities in areas on Sumatra that were hit by deadly floods may ...

President Prabowo Subianto has pledged to accelerate temporary housing construction and infrastructure repairs in West ...

Indonesia’s government has been at pains to stress that the recent catastrophe in Sumatra was triggered by a rare ...

Residents have put up white flags in front of homes in villages, along national highways and at emergency posts and ...

Reeling from a cyclone that may have erased a chunk of its population, the Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape ...

The number of casualties from the Sumatra disaster is still potentially increasing. The BNPB noted that 192 people are still ...

By Achmad Rizki MuazamAyat S. KarokaroTaufik Wijaya NORTH SUMATRA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s environment ministry on Dec. 6 ...

The magnitude of the disaster that hit three provinces is more of a result from land use change and spatial planning in ...

Indonesia's Sumatra island will require 51.82 trillion rupiah ($3.11 billion) in reconstruction and recovery funds following ...

The death toll in the Sumatra floods and landslides has reached over 1,000 people over the weekend, as regional governments ...

Deforestation by both legal and illegal means has steadily eroded ecological resilience in Indonesia, worsening the impacts of flooding in recent days ...