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View all search resultsThe arrests came after around 30 residents held a protest in front of a nickel mining company in East Halmahera on May 16, where they opposed the company’s mining activities and criticized its environmental impact on local communities.
Members of the Hongana Manyawa tribe, the indigenous people of East Halmahera, North Maluku, have reportedly blocked heavy equipment from entering the Aki Sangaji River in a bid to prevent logging ahead of nickel-mining activities in the forests of Mount Topu Blewen.
Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prosecutors suspected half of the bribes allegedly received by East Halmahera Regent Rudy Erawan would be used to finance the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle’s (PDI-P) national leadership meeting (Rapimnas).
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