Where is Sumatra? It is located at western side of indonesia. Indonesia is one country that located in south east asia. You can get there by using air transportation or using water transportation. If you using air transportation just go directly to Soekarno Hatta Airport that located at the capital city of indonesia before you going to sumatra island. After arrive at soekarno hatta airport, you can just search for bus that heading to sumatra island.

Why people use to going there, is just because there are a lot of beautiful place over here. Lets call it, Toba lake, the biggest lake in indonesia that there a island inside this lake, samosir island. Beside Toba Lake, there another beautiful place like suku anak dalam, sumatra pine forest, sumatra elephant, sumatra tiger, etc.

Srivijayan influence baned in the 11th century after it was defeated by the Chola Empire of southern India. At the same time, Islam made its way to Sumatra through Arabian traders in the 6th and 7th centuries AD. By the late 13th century, the monarch of the Samudra Pasai kingdom had converted to Islam. Marco Polo visited the island in 1292, and Ibn Battuta visited twice during 1345–1346. Samudra was succeeded by the powerful Aceh Sultanate, which survived to the 20th century. With the coming of the Dutch, the many Sumatra princely states gradually fell under their control. Aceh, in the north side pf sumatra island, was the major obstacle, as the Dutch were involved in the long and costly Aceh War (1873–1903).

Sumatra came under the control of the Dutch East Indies and became a major producer of pepper, rubber, and oil. In the early and mid-twentieth century.

The Great Sumatran fault, a strike-slip fault, runs the entire length of the island along its west coast. On 26 December 2004, the western coast and islands of Sumatra, particularly Aceh province, were struck by a tsunami following the Indian Ocean earthquake. More than 170,000 Indonesians were killed, primarily in Aceh. Other recent earthquakes to strike Sumatra include the 2005 Sumatra Earthquake and the October 2010 Sumatra earthquake.