Search and rescue workers are seen on a boat used in the search for passengers from the Sinar Bangun ferry that sank in Lake Toba in Simalungun, North Sumatra, Indonesia June 19, 2018 in this photo ...

PIKIRAN RAKYAT – Lake Toba, located in North Sumatra Province, is the largest volcanic lake in Indonesia, and even in the world. This lake was formed by a massive eruption of Mount Toba around 74,000 ...

Lake Toba was once the site of the largest volcanic eruption on Earth in the last two million years, some 74,000 years ago. It’s the sheer size and beauty of Lake Toba which strikes you while coasting ...

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 ...

The death toll from an Indonesian ferry disaster could top 180, as authorities raised an estimate of the number of people missing two days after the wooden tourist boat sank in Lake Toba on the island ...

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 ...

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 ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A night-time search and rescue effort is underway after a ferry carrying about 80 passengers sank Monday in a popular lake on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing at ...

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 ...