PALEMBANG, Indonesia In February 1965, President Sukarno, flanked by aides and a photographer, unlocked the door to Indonesia’s first experimental nuclear reactor, the TRIGA Mark II, in the city of Bandung. Six decades later, the world’s fourth-largest country has yet to open a nuclear power station. However, on a remote island of Indonesia in […]
Concerns about the environmental impacts of deep-sea mining have increased over the past few years, and for good reason: nearly 77% of the seafloor, home to highly unique biodiversity, has not been mapped or explored. To sidestep debates over the deep sea, some companies and countries are turning to shallow seabed mining, under the assumption […]
State-owned tin mining firm PT Timah Tbk has teamed up with Bangka Belitung University (UBB) to install 1,920 units of artificial coral reefs in the waters .
BANGKA BELITUNG, Indonesia A conflict that flared up at the start of the year between traditional fishers and illegal miners in Indonesia’s Bangka-Belitung Islands has once again highlighted the social tensions that have long gripped one of the richest tin-mining regions in the world. The incident was sparked by social media posts uploaded by […]