"Malayu" was the name of an old kingdom located in Jambi province in eastern Sumatra.

The earliest photographs of eastern Sumatra were taken by Feilberg in 1869.

The current distribution in eastern Sumatra has been reduced by 30-40% due to hunting, logging, fires and agriculture.

The site of Srivijaya's centre is thought be at a river mouth in eastern Sumatra, based near what is now Palembang.

Prehistoric man of the Mesolithic era (dating from 5000-7000 years ago) lived by the shore of eastern Sumatra and mollusks were the easiest foodstuff that could be found.

As a Volksraad member, Thamrin and Kusumom Utoyo went to eastern Sumatra to look into working conditions at plantations there.

Apart from Javanese city-states, it also gained overlordship of ports of Jambi and Palembang in eastern Sumatra.

On 13 February, the Allies fought unsuccessfully-in the Battle of Palembang-to prevent the Japanese from capturing the major oil port in eastern Sumatra.

It is known from eastern Sumatra in Indonesia.

Historically, Indonesian, the national language of Indonesia, was derived from the Malay spoken in Riau archipelago, a province in eastern Sumatra.