School students and staff gather in an open area after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck near Mentawai Islands, in South Nias School students and staff gather in an open area after a magnitude 6.4 ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - An Australian tourist was found dead after diving at Beribanua Bay Sipora Island, Mentawai District, West Sumatra, on Wednesday, September 2. Mengawau Resort Police Chief ...

PIKIRAN RAKYAT – West Sumatra is one of the most beautiful regions in Indonesia, offering stunning natural beauty. Among the many tourist destinations, the Mentawai Islands stand out as a hidden gem ...

A tiny island chain in Indonesia has achieved mythical status in the surfing community. Here come the resorts. In 1991, an Australian named Lance Knight came upon a perfect wave. Brushed by gentle ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the jungles of Siberut Island, the cries of the bilou once echoed ...

Business is booming. Under post-Suharto autonomy, however, the Mentawai people have been given a mandate to develop their own economy separate from Sumatra. Besides logging and their traditional copra ...

At least 11 people are missing after a boat capsized off Indonesia's western island of Sumatra, officials said Tuesday (Jul 15). According to a statement by the Mentawai search and rescue agency, the ...

Some 17 people survived and one is still missing after a speedboat capsized off the coast of Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands in the West Sumatra province in bad weather, marking the second such disaster ...

The magnitude-8.4 and -7.9 quakes that slammed the Mentawai Islands southwest of Sumatra in September 2007 are likely just the first in a series of major temblors that will strike that region in the ...

Indonesian residents stay in the open after a strong earthquake shook Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, 02 February 2016. The US Geological Survey (USGS) said a magnitude-7.9 earthquake struck some 660 ...

JAKARTA, Aug 29 (Reuters) - A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island, the third tremor to rattle the area since early Monday, according to the country's geophysics ...