Indonesia Pays For The Rush to Nickel Exploitation
Jokowi’s ambition to become the world’s nickel king has dark linings
Indonesia, which is betting its economic future on seizing the downstream production of its considerable resource wealth from multinationals that have exploited it for generations, may be running into new problems including vast environmental degradation and rapidly depleting resources.
Land concessions for nickel mining alone reached more than a million…
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