Indonesia’s 2025 fire season is spiraling into one of the worst in recent memory, with a sharp spike in hotspots and toxic haze already choking parts of Malaysia. Forest and peat fires, mostly caused ...

Mount Marapi in West Sumatra erupted this morning, August 12, sending an ash column up to 1,600 meters above the summit.

ALBAWABA - Indonesia's Marapi volcano has erupted again on Tuesday morning in West Sumatra province, shooting 1,600 meters of ...

The Pacific and Sahul plate movements controlled the tectonics of the eastern portion of Indonesia.Subduction occurs along ...

Minister of Forestry Raja Juli Antoni credited the country's success in reducing forest and land fires to the effective use ...

Motorists ride past by as Mount Marapi spews volcanic materials during its eruption in Agam, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. Ardhy Fernando / AP ...

They include South Sumatra province, where a big peatland fire burned for several days in August. Indonesia’s dry season fires were particularly disastrous in 2015, burning 10,000 square miles ...

Children walk along a reef fronting a reef on the island of Nias, Indonesia on Sept. 29, 2005. Over a decade later, the Mentawai chain to the south eclipsed Nias as the go-to spot off of Sumatra.

Mount Sinabung has been erupting intermittently since 2010 after being dormant for centuries. Mount Sinabung spews volcanic ash as it erupts in Kutarakyat, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Feb. 19, 2018.

Belgian photojournalist Alain Schroeder first encountered orangutans as a tourist in Indonesia. After feeling an immediate connection to them, he returned as a photojournalist to document them.

Authorities in Indonesia have expanded their efforts to shut down illegal gold mining in Sumatra, where they practice has grown in recent years. Officials in West Sumatra province pledged last ...