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Nickel rush for stainless steel, EVs guts Indonesia tribe's forest home
- Bokum, one of Indonesia's last isolated hunter-gatherers, warned miners they are destroying the Hongana Manyawa's forest home in Halmahera in 2023.
- Mining by Weda Bay Nickel, the world's largest nickel producer supplying 17 percent globally, has driven away wildlife and polluted rivers, forcing the tribe to move repeatedly.
- The Hongana Manyawa, meaning "People of the Forest," have struggled to find food and clean water amid rapid deforestation across a 45,000-hectare concession.
- A widely shared 2023 video showed emaciated tribe members begging for food as mud from mining stained rivers copper and caused skin irritation, highlighting stark environmental impacts.
- Despite Weda Bay Nickel's denials of harming isolated groups, NGOs and the Indonesian government recognize the tribe's existence and call for no-go zones to prevent their annihilation.
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Nickel rush for stainless steel, EVs guts Indonesia tribe's forest home
Sitting deep in east Indonesia's lush jungle, Bokum, one of the country's last isolated hunter-gatherers, has a simple message for the nickel miners threatening his home: "This is our land."
In the name of stainless steel and batteries, the world's largest nickel mine dislodged an Admin FCE tribe 28 May 2025 - 06:03 Bokum, a member of one of Indonesia's last hunter-gatherer tribes, almost completely isolated from the modern world, is despairing: its virgin forest, stupefying with beauty on an island of the Moluccas, is rich in nickel. And has been home to the largest mine of this metal in the world for six years, exploited by Chines…
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