A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

A comical moment in West Sumatra, Indonesia, in late January: 22-year-old Ruby, who wears braces to correct her overbite, ...

The corpse flower, native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra, gets its name from the literal translation of the Indonesian phrase Bunga bangkai. Its species name, Amorphophallus titanum, meanwhile, ...

Shyntia Aprizani, a journalist from Indonesia's Padang Ekspres in West Sumatra, recently had the chance to report on, and delve deeper into, West Sumatra’s unique culture and art at the Festival ...

The World Bank has cancelled a $150 million project to boost tourism to Tanzania’s Ruaha National Park, following allegations of human rights abuses by park authorities. Under the Tanzanian ...

It operates a total of 11 palm oil mills: four in North Sumatra, six in South Sumatra and one in East Kalimantan. Total annual processing capacity of these mills is 2,295,000 tons of fresh fruit ...

PT Bakrie Sumatera Plantations Tbk is an Indonesian integrated agribusiness company that operates in oil palm and rubber plantations. It produces palm oil and its derivatives, and processes natural ...

namely super priority tourist destinations (DPSP), namely Mandalika in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), Borobudur in Central Java, Labuan Bajo in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), Likupang in North Sulawesi, and ...

Japan welcomed the most visitors in history in 2024, as the country’s weak currency fuelled a tourism boom, according to official figures. More than 36.8 million people visited the Asian country ...

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Last December, Nurhawati Zihura was killed on the Indonesian island of Sumatra after being mauled to death by a crocodile. She had taken off her shoes to wash her feet in the sea. Her body was ...