JAKARTA - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has declared the Toba Caldera natural lake in Indonesia's province of North Sumatra as a global geopark, Indonesia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday .
He said the Indonesian government managed to convince Unesco of Toba Caldera's geological potentials to sustain the lives of the local people through its rich culture, tradition and biodiversity. The declaration was expected to encourage economic growth and sustainable development in the province. Toba Caldera is renowned for its climate-changing, supervolcanic eruption that occurred about 73,000 years ago, according to the Earth Observatory of Singapore.
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