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Workers are visible at the Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park's compound in Central Halmahera, North Maluku, Indonesia, Friday, June 7, 2024. Indonesia has been building out a vast industry for nickel. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Indonesia tests shows blood mercury rising at ground zero of world energy transition

Rabul Sawal 9 Jul 2025

Legal counsel with the 27 residents who were arrested at the North Maluku Regional Police headquarters, May 19

Police in Indonesia’s Halmahera Island charge 11 farmers in latest nickel flashpoint

Rabul Sawal 3 Jun 2025

A coal-fired power plant at night in the nickel industrial area in Halmahera.

Disease surges in Indonesia community on frontline of world energy transition

Rabul Sawal 6 Feb 2025

The PLTU 1 Indramayu, which previously used entirely coal, has now mixed it with biomass.

Biomass-burning coal plants leave the air even dirtier, Java communities say

Rabul Sawal 25 Mar 2024

Dairi residents stood in solidarity with farmers and called for the rescue of Dairi from the zinc and lead mines.

Sumatra women farmers celebrate court win against China-backed zinc mine

Rabul Sawal 16 Aug 2023

Red seas and no fish: Nickel mining takes its toll on Indonesia’s spice islands

Rabul Sawal 16 Feb 2022

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A member of the U’wa Indigenous group in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Beach on Mioskon Island in Raja Ampat. Photo by Rhett Bulter/Mongabay.

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