North Sumatra

Binsar Bakkara/Associated Press An Indonesian boy jumped into the sea while playing with his friends at a fishing village in Belawan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday.

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Reuters A farmer harvested rice in the paddy fields of Deli Serdang district, Indonesia's North Sumatra province, on Jan. 12.

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Associated Press Nurlela Tarigan, supported by her husband Benar Sitepu, cried in front of Malaysian Consulate office in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on Thursday, after finding out that the body Malaysian officials sent back is not their 22-year-old migrant worker son who died at a palm oil plantation in Malaysia.

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Sutanta Aditya/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A government veterinarian worker sprays anti-bird flu disinfectant over birds and fowls at Medan city market in North Sumatra province Thursday.

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Roni Bintang/Reuters A nurse handled quadruplets, a male and three female babies, in Stella Maris hospital in Medan, Indonesia's North Sumatra province.

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JAKARTA, Indonesia — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 rattled Indonesia's North Sumatra province Sunday, prompting a brief local tsunami watch, knocking out power and damaging some homes, officials said.

Indonesia Earthquake: 7.4 Quake Rattles North Sumatra Province 2010

JAKARTA, Indonesia mdash; An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 rattled Indonesia's North Sumatra province Sunday, prompting a brief local tsunami watch, knocking out ...

Indonesia Earthquake: 7.4 Quake Rattles North Sumatra Province 2010

With windfalls from oil and gas revenues of $400 million per year as well as a special autonomy grant from Jakarta, the province's annual budget of more than $1 billion last year dwarfed that of the neighboring province of North Sumatra, which has a much larger population.

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JAKARTA, Indonesia — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 rattled Indonesia's North Sumatra province Sunday, prompting a brief local tsunami watch, knocking out power and damaging some homes, officials said.

Indonesia Earthquake: 7.4 Quake Rattles North Sumatra Province 2010

Local media reports said the quake caused panic in many parts of Aceh – which was hit hard by the earthquake that triggered the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 230,000 people – and in neighboring North Sumatra province.

Indonesia Earthquake: 7.4 Quake Rattles North Sumatra Province 2010