Reduced water supplies from upstream areas trigger a drastic decline in groundwater level, causing residents’ shallow wells ...

JAKARTA: West Sumatra Police chief Insp Gen Suharyono has stirred widespread controversy amid pressure for the force to be transparent regarding the suspicious death of a boy in Padang, who allegedly ...

(Reuters) - Rescue teams struggled on Thursday to find people trapped under debris after a powerful earthquake hit the Indonesian city of Padang, possibly killing thousands. A second quake, of ...

Indonesian National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) reported that the death toll from the ecological disaster in Sumatra ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Minangkabau International Airport in Padang Pariaman, West Sumatra has officially reopened the international route of Padang-Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, October 1. The route had been ...

Local Indonesia TV footage has shown complete devastation in the the city of Padang, with the airport and hotels said to have collapsed after a 7,6-magnitude earthquake. Thousands of people are ...

The West Sumatra provincial government is targeting that all survivors of flash floods and landslides in several affected areas are relocated to temporary ...

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