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 ...

The road is sinuous and with traffic jam, it might take over four hours to cover the 180 km which separates Medan, North Sumatra capital to the Lake Toba. But it is worth the visit. The road is ...

Search and rescue workers are seen on a boat used in the search for passengers from the Sinar Bangun ferry that sank in Lake Toba in Simalungun, North Sumatra, Indonesia June 19, 2018 in this photo ...

TIGARAS, Indonesia-- Distraught relatives slammed Indonesia's government for not enforcing basic safety measures on passenger boats and pleaded Wednesday for a bigger search effort for more than 190 ...

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has established a special authority to revive tourism in Lake Toba, North Sumatra. Environmentalists worry the plan could lead to forest clearance and exacerbate a ...

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 ...

Lake Toba was once the site of the largest volcanic eruption on Earth in the last two million years, some 74,000 years ago. It’s the sheer size and beauty of Lake Toba which strikes you while coasting ...

Sixteen bodies have been recovered from beneath heavy mudslides and flood debris in Indonesia, after flash floods devastated mountain villages on Sumatra Island, officials reported Monday. Six people ...

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 ...

When we heard that there was a massive lake inside of a volcano caldera, we were more than a little intrigued. When we found out that there was an island on that lake, inside of the caldera, and that ...