Sumatra women farmers celebrate court win against China-backed zinc mine

Mongabay
Aug 16, 2023, 1:40 pm158 ptsTrending
JAKARTA — In June, Dormaida Sihotang and dozens of other women from Dairi district in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province arrived in Jakarta to plead with authorities to stop a zinc mine, two decades in the making, that could one day wipe them out. “We came here to get across that our sources of water and…

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