By Keith Anthony Fabro Off the western coast of Sumatra, the Mentawai Islands rise from the Indian Ocean in a patchwork of ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the jungles of Siberut Island, the cries of the bilou once echoed ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesian rescuers found alive on Tuesday 11 people missing at sea who had survived a boat capsize in bad weather by swimming for at least six hours to the nearest island, ...

PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — Residents of Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands found several people stranded on Monday after a speedboat carrying 18 people capsized during a storm the day before, authorities said ...

The 36-year-old was surfing near the Mentawai Islands Regency in Indonesia on Oct. 18 when a swordfish "unexpectedly jumped towards Manfrini and pierced her chest," Lahmudin Siregar, the acting head ...

A frantic search is underway in surfing’s Disneyland. On Monday, at around 11:00am local time, a boat traveling between islands in the famed Mentawais sank due to bad weather. According to initial ...

PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — Residents of Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands found several people stranded on Monday after a speedboat carrying 18 people capsized during a storm the day before, authorities said ...