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Indonesians blame deforestation for flood devastation
Reuters, Published on 02/12/2025
» South Tapanuli, Indonesia - Reliwati Siregar gestured angrily at deforestation around her home on the island of Sumatra, where landslides and floods brought by a tropical storm killed more than 700 people in its deadliest disaster since a cataclysmic tsunami in 2004.
Sumatra floods and landslides kill at least 28
Published on 27/11/2025
» JAKARTA - Floods and landslides brought about by torrential rain in North Sumatra province of Indonesia have killed at least 28 people, with rescue efforts hampered by what an official described as a “total cut-off” of roads and communications.
How did an Indian zoo get the world's most endangered great ape?
AFP, Published on 19/09/2025
» Tapanuli orangutans are the world's most endangered great ape. Fewer than 800 remain, all previously thought to be in their native Indonesia. But now an Indian zoo says it has one.
Indonesian child's viral fame draws tourists to boat race
AFP, Published on 24/08/2025
» PEKANBARU (INDONESIA) - Armed with colourful oars, rowers pack into long boats in western Indonesia, paddling furiously in front of race crowds swelled by the viral success of a young boy famous for his dancing at the front of the traditional vessels.
Orangutan uses medicinal plant to treat wound
Reuters, Published on 04/05/2024
» JAKARTA - In June 2022, a male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus sustained a facial wound below the right eye, apparently during a fight with another male orangutan at the Suaq Balimbing research site, a protected rainforest area in Indonesia. What Rakus did three days later really caught the attention of scientists.
Critically endangered Sumatran rhino birth in Indonesia
AFP, Published on 27/11/2023
» JAKARTA - A Sumatran rhino has been born in western Indonesia, officials said Monday, a rare sanctuary birth for the critically endangered animal, with only a few score believed left.
Endangered Sumatran rhino born in Indonesia
Reuters, Published on 02/10/2023
» JAKARTA: An endangered Sumatran rhinoceros, the smallest and hairiest of the five extant rhino species, was born in Indonesia last week in a conservation area, the government said on Monday.
Wave of violent Indonesia muggings sparks 'shoot-to-kill' calls
AFP, Published on 16/08/2023
» MEDAN (INDONESIA) - A spate of violent muggings by machete-wielding thieves in Indonesia has drawn coded calls from prominent politicians for them to be killed-on-sight by police, in comments condemned by rights groups as condoning extrajudicial murders.
3 critically endangered Sumatran tigers killed in Indonesia
AFP, Published on 25/04/2022
» Three critically endangered Sumatran tigers were found dead in western Indonesia on Sunday after being ensnared by traps, police said, dealing another blow to the species' rapidly declining population.
Chilean zoo jabs big cats, orangutan against Covid-19
AFP, Published on 04/01/2022
» BUIN (CHILE) - Bengal tiger Charly and Bornean orangutan Sandai, both members of endangered species, have received coronavirus vaccines at a Chilean zoo in a Latin American first.