MEDAN, Indonesia — Rescuers recovered the body of a man buried under tons of mud and rocks from flash floods and a landslide that crashed onto a hilly village on Indonesia’s Sumatra island. Tons of mud, rocks and trees rolled down from a mountain late Friday triggered by torrential rain, reaching a river that burst its banks and tore through …
Today's Google Doodle celebrates Lake Toba, known as Danau Toba, located on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Lake Toba was designated as UNESCO Global Geopark on August 31, 2020. It was formed as a result of a massive volcanic eruption from Toba Caldera thousands of years ago and is now home to a UNESCO Global Geopark and boasts off beautifully …
Indonesian rights groups protest against dialogue for gender equality over alleged failure to address issues in North Sumatra. “I think the W20 narrative is ironic when their theme is ‘recover together’ equally, but they didn’t even include any agenda related to the challenges of the women of Lake Toba, especially regarding land grabbing and customary forests,” Sekar Banjaran Aji, a …
Lake Toba in Indonesia was formed 75,000 years ago after a violent volcanic eruption. It was against this backdrop that Edy Rahmayadi, the provincial governor of North Sumatra, proposed reviving the area by making Lake Toba more amenable to Muslim tourists, a growing force in the global travel industry dubbed halal tourism. “If tourists see that, they’ll never come back …