The Latest Breaking News from North Sumatra

Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung volcano spews ash 3.5km into air after major eruption

Sinabung on North Sumatra’s Karo Plateau was considered to be dormant for centuries before it suddenly erupted in 2010

The Independent UK · Aug 31

Indonesia Fashion Week 2026 Puts a Batak Textile at the Center of Its Business Case

Indonesia Fashion Week 2026 opened in Jakarta on July 29 under the theme "Ulos Simetria," putting the North Sumatran handwoven textile at the center of its 14th edition alongside trade delegations from 32 countries.

Fashion Times · Aug 5

Multiple threats endanger the world’s rarest great ape, a new study on the Tapanuli orangutan reveals

Deep in the forests of North Sumatra, Indonesia, lives the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis), the world’s rarest great ape. Fewer than 800 individuals remain, confined to the Batang Toru ecosystem, a landscape that is also home to other rare species like Sumatran tigers, Sunda pangolins, agile gibbons and helmeted hornbills.

The Conversation · Aug 4

G20 women’s forum accused of excluding Indigenous Indonesians

Indonesian rights groups protest dialogue for gender equality over alleged failure to address issues in North Sumatra.

Al Jazeera · Jul 20, 2022

Landslide Kills 12 Women at Illegal Gold Mine in Indonesia

Rescuers retrieved a dozen bodies of women buried under tons of mud from a landslide that crashed onto an unauthorized gold mining operation on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, police said Friday. About 14 women were looking for gold grains Thursday in a pit roughly 2 meters (6.5 feet) deep at a…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 29, 2022