The Indigenous Lom people of Tuing hamlet have been guarding their area from the environmental dangers of mining activity for centuries; theirs is the only hamlet left in their community still free ...

On the night of 1 April, strong winds brought drizzle, lightning and metre-high waves to the seas around the Bangka Belitung islands in western Indonesia. Ismu Bai decided to return from his ...

It's 8am and in Rebo, a fishing village on the eastern coast of the Indonesian island of Bangka, dozens of ragtag, casually dressed young men are gathering around the small harbour, as they do every ...

BANGKA ISLAND, INDONESIA—At 8 a.m. in Rebo, a fishing village on the eastern coast of this Indonesian island, dozens of young men gather at the small harbour, equipped only with a jerry can of fuel ...

Tin mining in one of the world’s main producers of the metal has sparked the latest in a series of conflicts between illegal miners and traditional fishers in Indonesia. The incident stemmed from a ...

Rescuers scoured a river for a missing tin miner believed to have been attacked by a crocodile in Indonesia. Local search and rescue (SAR) teams were desperately searching for Febry Yansah, 19, who ...

TOBOALI, Indonesia, June 8 (Reuters) - From the shores of Indonesia's Bangka island, miners like Hendra head out by boat every day to scores of crudely built wooden pontoons dotted off the coast that ...

What's the connection between your smartphone and crocodile attacks? It's quite straightforward. Smartphones need tin, which is often mined illegally in Indonesia. When illegal tin mines are abandoned ...