The rags-to-riches tale begins four years ago as he struggled to keep his auto repair shop business afloat in Kasegeran — a remote town in Java that most Indonesians would struggle to find on a map.

BANYUMAS, Indonesia: Siswanto was a down-on-his-luck mechanic until his improbable pivot to Internet videos turned his neighbours into stars and vaulted his poor farming community into the ...

TELUK, Indonesia — Solikah, an Indonesian housewife living in the fishing village of Teluk, was in tears as she pointed to piles of trash strewn on a beach close to her home of 40 years. Teluk ...

Indonesia is shown in yellow. The village along the Nibung River accounts for 31 square kilometers (12 square miles) of protected land, according to a 2017 ministry of environment decree.

Residents of the island of Kabaena in Indonesia registered their home as a “tourism village” seven years ago in a bid to ward off a planned nickel mine.

This blog was originally published on ClimateLinks. The end of USAID’s five-year LESTARI project (2015-2020) in Indonesia, implemented by Tetra Tech, is an opportunity to recognize their collective ...

For the village's 300 fishermen, the sea that once sustained them has become a poisoned wasteland. Decades of coral removal, mangrove destruction and land reclamation have decimated fish stocks.

Indonesia’s most active volcano Mount Merapi erupted Monday, belching a cloud of ash into the air as red lava flowed down its crater. The early morning explosions spewed clouds as far as 3.5 ...

Horrifying moment snake charmer is fatally bitten by his pet cobra while trying to kiss it during a village show in Indonesia Abdul Manir, 20, was charming the snake in Central Java, Indonesia ...

Indonesia's 'YouTube Village' banks on homegrown video stars The rags-to-riches tale begins four years ago as he struggled to keep his auto shop business afloat in Kasegeran -- a remote town in ...

Poor waste management, industrial run-off and a coastal topography that traps trash have turned the village into a dumping ground. “Tanjung Uma is the most polluted village in Indonesia and has ...