Rural communities in South Sumatra, an Indonesian province that’s two-fifths wetlands, have long relied on catching freshwater fish as a source of livelihood. The region is renowned for its variety of ...

Betta iaspis was found in only one small forest peat swamp next to a “huge” oil palm plantation, researchers said. Photo by Siborey Sean via Unsplash In 2022, after passing through the hands of local ...

A community in Indonesia’s Jambi province has resorted to fish farming to raise money for its efforts to prevent wildfires in the community. In 2015, around 80% of the province’s peat forest was ...

The floods and landslides that hit three provinces of Sumatra—Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra—in late November 2025 not only claimed lives ...

A survey conducted by the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Konservasi Indonesia, and OceanX has found that 93% of whale and dolphin habitats in waters west of Sumatra lie outside ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Coordinating Minister for Food, Zulkifli Hasan, reported that about 30,000 hectares of fish ponds in Aceh were damaged due to Sumatra floods. "Not only in Pidie Jaya, which was ...