The incident stemmed from a fisher-activist’s social media posts criticizing the environmental damage wrought by mining in the Bangka-Belitung Islands’ Kelabat Bay, where mining is banned.

Miners in Indonesia risk their lives every day by illegally diving up to 65 feet underwater with minimal equipment. Top-earning miners make about $13 a day. The tin they mine gets used in common ...

The Toboali area of Bangka Belitung province was only just cleared of small-scale mining in 2018, following similar opposition by fishers, but the new plan threatens to introduce larger-scale ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta- The Bangka Belitung Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) highly expects the regional administration to issue a policy that would protect the habitat of local crocodiles to ...

Indonesia is planning to build its first nuclear power plant on Kelasa island in Bangka Belitung province. Bob S. Effendi, Chief Operating Officer of PT ThorCon Power Indonesia – the project’s ...

The PT Steelindo Wahana Perkasa (SWP) cooking oil processing plant was buzzing with heightened activity on Monday (May 19, ...

But these attacks aren't distributed evenly. Croc hotspots include the Bangka-Belitung islands, off the southeastern coast of Sumatra. And these islands have a huge amount of tin. The Bangka ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Prosecutors accused three former officials of the Bangka Belitung Energy and Mineral Resources Agency of causing Rp3 trillion in financial losses to the state. All three ...

Areas with larger amounts of tin tend to be more prone to crocodile-conflict incidents — in particular, the Bangka-Belitung islands, off the south-eastern coast of Sumatra. Brandon Sideleau is a ...