On retirement from public life, Wilmar Eliaser Simandjorang found a quiet place on a hillside overlooking Lake Toba, on the ...

People tend to skip over Sumatra when they travel to Indonesia. Bali is always their top pick. In North Sumatra lies Lake ...

Aerial photo of Lake Toba from the tourist area of Tele tower of view in Turpuk Limbong, Harian, Samosir Regency, North Sumatra, Sunday, February 21, 2021. Visitors can enjoy the panoramic beauty of ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Local government officials and residents living around Lake Toba, North Sumatra province, have started removing water hyacinth from the lake as part of preparations for hosting the ...

The magnificent Lake Toba in North Sumatra was designated a National Geopark by President Yudhoyono, together with the official inauguration of the brand new Kualanamu Airport of Medan and 5 other air ...

Wed, February 27, 2019 Published on Feb. 27, 2019 Published on 2019-02-27T12:22:23+07:00 he North Sumatra administration is pessimistic about achieving the Tourism Ministry’s target of one million ...

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The first humans arrived in Indonesia thousands of years before previously thought—which could mean they were present for an eruption at the Lake Toba supervolcano just over 71,000 years ago. Newly ...

Three thousand tons of farmed fish are thought to have perished in Lake Maninjau, the largest lake in Indonesia’s West Sumatra province. The die-off follows a similar incident that occurred in Lake ...

The Sinar Bangun tourist ferry had a maximum capacity of 60. But as the sun began to set on Monday evening, more than 200 people are thought to have crammed aboard the small, rickety vessel to make ...