EIA study for Great Nicobar Infrastructure Project downplays earthquake risk despite scientific concerns, highlighting potential dangers.

A powerful magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck 29 km northwest of Indonesia's Sabang on Saturday. The earthquake hit Indonesia at around 7.42 pm local time.

The Sabang Free Trade Zone and Free Port Authority (BPKS) in Aceh is strengthening maritime tourism diplomacy with ASEAN ...

Indonesia's North Sumatra and Aceh provinces have been embroiled in a dispute over the control of four islands, but a video ...

Following a rise in administrative claims over regional islands, possibly triggered by the recent Aceh-North Sumatra dispute, ...

By bno - Jakarta Office In June 2025, Indonesia settled a long-running territorial dispute between two of its westernmost ...

The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries has been aware of the news of the sale of an island in Anambas at least since ...

North Sumatra dispute was settled, other regions stepped forward with unresolved claims of their own and challenged the same ministerial decree, which they say fails to reflect spatial plans of the ...

The conflict stemmed from an April ministerial decree by the Home Ministry, transferring ownership of the four islands, geographically closer to North Sumatra, from Aceh Singkil regency in Aceh to ...

As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save it. In Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, orangutans swing through the treetops, ...

Four Indonesian islands returned to Aceh President Prabowo Subianto announced yesterday that the small atolls will pass from North Sumatra to Aceh, putting an end to a long-standing dispute.

Governors Muzakir Manaf (Aceh) and Bobby Nasution (North Sumatra) attended the meeting via video conference and signed an agreement formally recognising Aceh’s jurisdiction over the islands.