PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — Residents of Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands found several people stranded on Monday after a speedboat carrying 18 people capsized during a storm the day before, authorities said ...

I am a terrible surfer. Let that be stated now. Dropping into my first perfectly forming left-hand roller at Beng Beng’s, a popular surf break in Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, I was about as terrified ...

The Mentawai peoples, who live on Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, off the western coast of Sumatra, have faced numerous attempts to develop their traditional lands. In 2014, the Mentawai communities ...

Over the last few years, one can identify several Japanese-born pro surfers who bring various flavors and approaches to the pro surfing table. Kaito Ohashi, Amuro Tsuzuki, Hiroto Ohhara and Reno Inaba ...

In the Mentawai Islands of Indonesia, Indigenous youths continue to practice Arat Sabulungan, a cosmology that sees nature as filled with spirits, while blending it with Islam and Christianity.

Some 17 people survived and one is still missing after a speedboat capsized off the coast of Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands in the West Sumatra province in bad weather, marking the second such disaster ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Mentawai Islands, a chain of dozens of islands and islets off the western coast of Sumatra, offers some 400 surfing spots with some of the best waves to be found anywhere in the ...

A collection of islets off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, the Mentawai Islands bear the brunt of the Indian Ocean’s fury, which means one thing to surfers: a tantalizing abundance of waves. “Every ...