On Indonesia’s Seram Island, a massive oil find lies beneath sacred land. Uncertainty and fear now walks with the Bati Indigenous.

https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/on-indonesias-seram-island-a-massive-oil-find-lies-beneath-sacred-land/

SERAM ISLAND, Indonesia — Zainudin Kelsaba traversed across the eastern Seram highland and stopped at an ancient outcrop grown over by trees and scrub. “The mountain is our home,” Zainudin told Mongabay Indonesia. “The trees and rocks are part of our life.”…

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