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Indonesia's elephants outsmart humans

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Conflicts between wild animals and humans have long been on the rise on Sumatra, where jungle habitat is being increasingly taken over by encroaching settlements, plantations and industrial estates.

Destinations: Sumatra | Indonesia
Topics: Animals
Aproaching Lake Toba on the switchback road south from Medan.

TOBA, TOBA, TOBA

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Clouds of clove-scented cigarette smoke, diesel fumes, second-hand air: it takes a few gusts of fresh air off the mountain waters to dispel a fug like that. The four-hour ride from the steaming Medan...

Destinations: Sumatra | Indonesia
Topics: Culture | Travel | People | Beaches & Resorts | Nature
Orphans International's Dani Sirait, on a street of Rimajeneu village, Aceh Besar District, Aceh, Indonesia.

Sumatra Campus for Tsunami Orphans

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News Release: January 20, 2005 Sumatra Campus to be Built for Tsunami Orphans in Aceh, Indonesia New York -- Orphans International (OI) Worldwide founder Jim Luce announced today that OI America has...

Destinations: Sumatra | Indonesia
Topics: People
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OI Staff Dani Sirait talking with Mr. Abdusallam, Chief of the Rimajeneu Village in Aceh Besar district, Aceh, one of the worst areas hit by tsunami. Dani Sirait visiting children at refugee camp in Keutapang, Banda Aceh city and distributing Orphans International shirts and chocolate wafers to the children. Dani Sirait visiting children at refugee camp in Keutapang, Banda Aceh city and distributing Orphans International shirts and chocolate wafers to the children. Orphans International's Dani Sirait, on a street of Rimajeneu village, Aceh Besar District, Aceh, Indonesia. Bodies on the street of Rimajeneu village, Aceh Besar District, Aceh, one of the worst areas hit by tsunami with 80% of villagers dead and missing. Many children orphaned from this village are now living on the mountain. Carolina Cottages seems to have the resort recipe just about right... In December 1975 I had followed the flow to Samosir, where the Batak operated a cluster of bungalow-style guesthouses. Great-aunt Marta in the 200-year old stilted house which Frans Manurung shares with his brother and widowed mother. Houses old and new at Tuk-tuk, a resort enclave which has grown up on Samosir island. Eaves of a traditional prow-shaped house (a style echoed right across the Indonesian archipelago by other fragmented remnants of a once-widespread culture).
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