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 ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta- A visitor of one of Indonesia’s largest caldera, Lake Toba, identified as Imran Butar-butar had been missing for seven days after he and five of his friends were swimming at the ...

Today's Google Doodle celebrates Lake Toba, known as Danau Toba, located on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Lake Toba was designated as UNESCO Global Geopark on August 31, 2020. Lake Toba is the ...

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Indonesia is a country of many intriguing facets and the largest archipelago in the world with over 18,000 islands spread between the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Here you will find majestic volcanoes, ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) head, Bambang Brodjonegoro, said that the government has included lake preservation program in the National Medium-Term ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Travelling is probably the best way to do some soul searching. At least that’s what I did late last year when I was sent to Lake Toba in northern Sumatra, Indonesia for work. I had been to the place ...