Uphill fight to shut disaster-amplifying gold mines in Indonesian park

Mongabay
Feb 12, 2020, 7:08 am238 pts
JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has shut down 26 mining pits on the hilly outskirts of Jakarta, following floods and landslides last month exacerbated by environmental degradation in the area. Flooding and landslides in early January affected some 17,200 people in the districts of Lebak and Bogor, just…

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