When we heard that there was a massive lake inside of a volcano caldera, we were more than a little intrigued. When we found out that there was an island on that lake, inside of the caldera, and that ...

On the Indonesian island of Sumatra, there is a large lake that used to be a mountain. How is it that a mountain becomes a lake? Simple: It erupts. This mountain on Sumatra unleashed an utterly ...

The giant lake has struggled with pollution as fish farming and other activities have spread in the region. President Joko Widodo has announced plans to clean up Lake Toba and turn it into a prominent ...

LAKE TOBA, Indonesia — The ground still occasionally trembles here, a reminder of the active volcano below that last erupted 75,000 years ago and blasted a crater out of the earth the size of Los ...

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has established a special authority to revive tourism in Lake Toba, North Sumatra. Environmentalists worry the plan could lead to forest clearance and exacerbate a ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - PT Aviasi Pariwisata Indonesia or InJourney as the 2024 Lake Toba F1 Powerboat championship organizers claim this year's event was better compared to the last. The Director of ...

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Samosir Regency government plans to develop a 22-kilometer beach tourism at Lake Toba. This beach tourism is set to become a new attraction at Lake Toba, which has been ...

Indonesia’s search and rescue team believe they have located the ferry that sank in bad weather on June 18. The next step will be confirming the discovery and recovering almost 200 bodies believed to ...