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To turn Lake Toba into a top tourism spot, the agency requires a budget of 21 trillion Rupiah (US$1.3 billion). [ 5 ] The BPODT's exercise of authority has faced significant criticism by indigenous communities who raised concerns about being excluded from the development process, viewing the agency's projects as unilateral decisions not taking ...
Toba Caldera is one of twenty geoparks in Indonesia, [2] and was recognised in July 2020 as one of the UNESCO Global Geoparks. [3] [4] [5] Lake Toba is the site of a supervolcanic eruption estimated at VEI 8 that occurred 69,000 to 77,000 years ago, [6] [7] [8] representing a climate-changing event.
The government announced that the search would be stopped on 3 July. The reason is that the agency had found difficulties because Lake Toba's depth is more than 450-metre (1,480 ft) while at this time the agency only can search up to 200-metre (660 ft). The victims' families had said that they were already letting go of their relatives. [36]
Samosir, or Samosir Island, is a large volcanic island in Lake Toba, located in North Sumatra Province on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Administratively, Samosir Island is governed as six of the nine districts within Samosir Regency. The lake and island were formed after the eruption of the Toba supervolcano some 75,000 years ago. [2]
A Batak Toba man from Samosir with a hoe over his shoulders, pre-1939. The Toba Batak people (Batak Toba: ᯅᯖᯂ᯲ ᯖᯬᯅ) are the largest ethnic group of the Batak peoples of North Sumatra, Indonesia. The general term ‘Batak’ is sometimes used to refer to the Batak Toba people, for one thing because the Toba people are the largest ...
Toba Regency is a landlocked regency in North Sumatra. Its seat is Balige . The regency covers an area of 2,021.8 square kilometres; it had a population of 173,129 at the 2010 census [ 2 ] and 206,199 at the 2020 Census; [ 3 ] the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 213,850 (comprising 106,907 males and 106,943 females). [ 1 ]
Lake Sidihoni is a lake located within Samosir Island which itself is an island within Lake Toba, in North Sumatra, Indonesia and is therefore notable for being a "lake on an island in a lake on an island".
The distribution of Batak languages in northern Sumatra. Toba Batak is the majority language in the blue-colored areas labeled with its ISO 639-3 code "bbc". A Toba Batak speaker. Toba Batak (/ ˈ t oʊ b ə ˈ b æ t ə k / [2]) is an Austronesian language spoken in North Sumatra province in Indonesia. It is part of a group of languages called ...