A small-scale miner pans for tin in the Bangka-Belitung Islands. Image by Nopri Ismi/Mongabay Indonesia. Mongabay Indonesia spent four months in mid-2020 surveying seven Malay tribes who live in ...

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 ...

Image by Nopri Ismi for Mongabay. Mine-free for centuries, dating back to colonial times, Tuing faces the South China Sea on the northeastern coast of Bangka. The hamlet covers an area of about ...

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The Indonesian islands of Bangka and Belitung produce over 90 percent of the country's tin. President Joko Widodo has vowed to end illegal mining operations that put the lives of men and children ...

When Sariah went to fetch water in a pit near her home in Bangka Island, Indonesia, last September, she was unaware that a 3m-long saltwater crocodile had been resting in the crater, watching as ...