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A man holds a chicken as he walks on log used as a makeshift bridge at a village affected by a flash flood in Batang Toru, Dec. 1.

Indonesia revokes forest and mine permits over role in deadly Sumatra landslides

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Jan 2026
A community settlement in Pidie Jaya Regency, destroyed by flooding.

Indonesia launches sweeping environmental audits after Sumatra flood disaster

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jan 2026

A flood of logs post-Cyclone Senyar leaves Padang fishers out of work

Jaka Hendra Baittri 20 Dec 2025
Survivors inspect clothings they salvaged at a village affected by a flash flood in Batang Toru, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

Sumatra’s ‘natural’ disaster wasn’t natural: How deforestation turned a rare cyclone catastrophic

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Dec 2025

Indigenous conservationists lead the fight to save Mentawai’s endangered primates

Ana Norman Bermúdez 15 May 2025
Sumatran tigers are critically endangered.

Snared, skinned, sold: Brutal March for Indonesia’s Sumatran tigers

Junaidi Hanafiah, Rahmi Carolina, Vinolia 10 Apr 2025
More than half of the population of the Malalo Tigo Jurai Indigenous community depends on Lake Singkarak for livelihood.

Tragedy haunts community on shore of Sumatra’s largest solar farm

Jaka Hendra Baittri 12 Mar 2025
A Sumatran tiger.

Sumatran tiger confirmed killed by snare in Indonesia’s West Sumatra province

Jaka Hendra Baittri, Vinolia 13 Aug 2024
Bendri lost his house due to flash floods accompanied by wood and large stones in Batu Balah Village.

Sumatra villages count cost of deadly river tsunami swelled by illegal logging

Jaka Hendra Baittri, Vinolia Ahmad 17 Apr 2024
The Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Indonesia

Indonesian utility PLN ordered to disclose coal plants’ emissions data

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jan 2024
Fishermen catch octopus on Beriulou Island.

Indonesian village forms coast guard to protect octopus in Mentawai Islands

Jaka Hendra Baittri 3 Oct 2023
Sanjiv is a male Sumatran tiger who has arrived at a captive breeding center in Tacoma, Washington. Photo by Katie Cotterill for Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. Sanjiv.

Sumatran tiger arrives at Tacoma captive-breeding program

Jeremy Hance 6 Jan 2023

Tensions boil in Sumatra over a palm oil promise villagers say has yet to be kept

Jaka Hendra Baittri 9 Nov 2022
A farmer in a village in the Kerinci region.

A conservation failure in Sumatra serves a cautionary tale for PES schemes

Cassie Freund 30 Jun 2022

Sumatra palm plantations the usual suspects as unusual burning razes peatlands

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Jun 2022

Lack of resolution mechanisms allow palm oil conflicts to fester in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Nov 2021

Primary-colored poison: Lead paint still a major threat to Indonesian kids

Ayat S. Karokaro 17 Nov 2021

Illegal coal mine tunnels threaten a Sumatran village

Jaka Hendra Baittri 19 Apr 2021

Tiger on the highway

Mongabay.com 16 Dec 2020

Sumatra’s deforestation demystified

Mongabay.com 18 Nov 2020

Mongabay explores Sumatra, a land like no other

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2020

In Sumatra, authorities fight a resurgence of illegal gold mining

Een Irawan Putra 10 Feb 2020

A tiger refuge in Sumatra gets a reprieve from road building

Rod Harbinson 31 Aug 2019

Indonesia, a top plastic polluter, mobilizes 20,000 citizens to clean up the mess

Mongabay-indonesia 4 Sep 2018

Recognition of Mentawai tribes marks Indonesia’s latest piecemeal concession to indigenous groups

Basten Gokkon 15 Dec 2017

Two Indonesian soldiers found to be smuggling dozens of porcupines

Vinolia 25 Sep 2017

Wilmar appeals RSPO ruling that it grabbed indigenous lands in Sumatra

Rachel Diaz-Bastin 17 May 2017

A return to mixed roots in a Sumatran forest

Dedek Hendry 2 May 2017

Wilmar grabbed indigenous lands in Sumatra, RSPO finds

Rachel Diaz-Bastin 16 Feb 2017

These Indonesian villages are powered by locally sourced sustainable energy

Della Syahni 7 Feb 2017

First Toba, now Maninjau: another mass fish death hits an Indonesian lake

Vinolia 9 Sep 2016

Timber plantations are the latest threat facing Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands

Mike Gaworecki 7 Jun 2016

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