The long struggle of women farmers to halt a zinc mine in North Sumatra

Mongabay
Jan 26, 2026, 5:12 pm116 ptsTrending
SILIMA PUNGGA-PUNGGA DISTRICT, Indonesia — Rainim Purba first heard the rumor in 1996. Back then, in her mid-30s, villagers were saying a zinc mining company was going to operate near their village of Pandiangan, northeast of Indonesia’s North Sumatra province. It would also be near other villages like…

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