"Stop Nickel Extraction, Otherwise My People Will Die": the Message of an Indigenous Representative to France on the World's Largest Mine in Indonesia

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The Hongana Manyawa, a people of about 3,500 people, 500 of whom still live in isolation from the modern world, have their environment disrupted by the huge plant operated by Eramet, whose French state is a shareholder. A demand for triple production has been made.

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Ngigoro, 64 years old, an elder of the indigenous tribe of Hongana Manyawa who left the forest and now lives in a village with his mother, observing a nickel extraction site from the edge of the forest, in the east of Halmahera island, in the Indonesian province of Northern Moluccas. YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP At 64 years old, Ngigoro had never left his native island of Halmahera, Indonesia, for a foreign country.