Asia Sentinel

Asia Sentinel

Share this post

Asia Sentinel
Asia Sentinel
Indonesia Pays For The Rush to Nickel Exploitation
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
Society

Indonesia Pays For The Rush to Nickel Exploitation

Jokowi’s ambition to become the world’s nickel king has dark linings

Our Correspondent
Oct 12, 2023
∙ Paid

Share this post

Asia Sentinel
Asia Sentinel
Indonesia Pays For The Rush to Nickel Exploitation
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
Share

Indonesia, which is betting its economic future on seizing the downstream production of its considerable resource wealth from multinationals that have exploited it for generations, may be running into new problems including vast environmental degradation and rapidly depleting resources.

Land concessions for nickel mining alone reached more than a million…

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to Asia Sentinel to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in
© 2025 Asia Sentinel
Publisher Privacy
Substack
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture

Share

Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More