Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra. All passengers and crew aboard a boat that capsized in Mentawai Islands Regency, West Sumatra ...

The SAR agency received a report about the incident at 5:40 p.m. on Monday, more than six hours after the boat overturned.

Acting head of the Mentawai Islands Regency Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) Lahmudin Siregar spoke to news agency Antara, telling the outlet "the information we received from the Head ...

Mentawai Islands Regent Rinto Wardana stated that the boat was operating over its maximum capacity when the accident occurred.

Tribes living in the most remote regions are being threatened by oil exploration, mining and logging, disturbing the natural world. The Mentawai Islands lie to the West of Sumatra in the Indian ...

Now, they’re harder to hear. Siberut is the largest of the Mentawai Islands, an archipelago off western Sumatra, Indonesia, where a battle is unfolding to save some of the rarest primates on Earth.

Having amazing natural beauty, here are several tourist attractions in the Mentawai Islands that you must visit while on holiday.

Diego recognized the Mentawai as his embodiment of Eden, and in 2007, found another connection to these far-flung islands in his wife, Lora, who he met at a surfing competition and married several ...

If you want to get obscenely barreled, it's tough to beat the Mentawai Islands. Jamie O'Brien is a connoisseur of getting obscenely barreled in paradise. The post 15 Minutes of Mentawai Perfection ...

About 200 people evacuated to higher ground after an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck islands in western Indonesia on Sunday, causing some property damage, the country's disaster mitigation ...