There were no direct effects Influence of the earthquake Catastrophe 's shaking Motion due to its low intensity , and the large loss Damaging of life from the event was due Causation to the resulting Causation tsunami Catastrophe , which inundated Destroying a portion of the Java coast that had been unaffected Causation by the earlier 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake Catastrophe and tsunami Catastrophe that was off the coast of Sumatra .

In July this force sailed Self_motion on a commerce raiding cruise off British Ceylon , but a subsequent attack into the Straits of Malacca was driven Motion off in an inconclusive engagement with two British ships of the line off Northeastern Sumatra .

The Action of 9 September 1796 was an inconclusive minor naval engagement Hostile_encounter between small French Navy and British Royal Navy squadrons off northeastern Sumatra , near Banda Aceh , during the French Revolutionary Wars Hostile_encounter .

On 17 February 1958 the Permesta rebels joined Connect forces with the PRRI rebels based in Sumatra who had declared a revolutionary government two days earlier .

Following successful Central Government attacks on the PRRI based in Sumatra , the conflict swung Motion to the east where the Permesta rebels were based .

Dutch military forces ( and , for a while , the forces Military_operation of the World War II Allies ) were able to control Control the major towns , cities and industrial assets in Republican heartlands on Java and Sumatra but could not control Control the countryside .

SilkAir Flight 185 was a scheduled SilkAir passenger flight operated by a Boeing 737-300 from Jakarta , Indonesia , to Singapore , that crashed Catastrophe into the Musi River near Palembang in southern Sumatra , on 19 December 1997 , killing Killing all 97 passengers and seven crew on board .

Later that week , beginning Process_start 22 December , North Sumatra experienced Perception_active abnormally high rainfall Catastrophe which also caused Causation flooding Catastrophe

The May 1998 riots of Indonesia ( ) , also known as the 1998 tragedy ( ) or simply the 1998 event ( ) , were incidents Catastrophe of mass violence , demonstrations , and civil unrest of a racial nature that occurred Presence throughout Indonesia , mainly in Medan in the province of North Sumatra ( 4–8 May ) , the capital city of Jakarta ( 12–15 May ) , and Surakarta ( also called Solo ) in the province of Central Java ( 13–15 May ) .

The 1931 Southwest Sumatra earthquake Catastrophe occurred Coming_to_be on 25 September at 05:59 UTC .

It was located between the Enggano Island and Sumatra , Indonesia , then under the rule of Dutch East Indies .

The earthquake Catastrophe occurred Coming_to_be off southwest Sumatra .

French privateers rapidly spread Dispersal along the British trade routes in the Far East , becoming concentrated around the narrow Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies .

For the Sumatra zone followed Action by Sriwijaya and Semen Padang they will play Competition home-and-away system , who would be the best will be qualifying Becoming_a_member for the tournament Competition proper .

The second named Name_conferral storm Catastrophe of the season , Bella originated Coming_to_be in the middle of January 1991 from a surge in the monsoon trough to the southwest of Sumatra .