Fishing is important in the Indonesian archipelago, which is made up of more than 17,000 islands, the second-largest of which is Sumatra. Rugged West Sumatra, where rainforest clings to the ...

Three earthquakes struck Indonesia on Tuesday, with a 5.5-magnitude tremor hitting North Sumatra province in the morning, and two earlier quakes in Maluku and East Nusa Tenggara, the country's ...

The Srivijaya empire also had trade links with the Middle ... Islam took root in the 15th/16th centuries CE on islands such as Sumatra, Java, and Borneo, the scarcity and limited detail of ...