Recent reports show that Indonesia's nickel boom, while helping the global energy transition, is linked to more respiratory illness and harm for the workers involved. #nickelmining

Indonesia’s nickel boom linked to rising illness and worker harm, reports find
HALMAHERA, Indonesia — New research examining Indonesia’s vast nickel-processing regions has documented rising rates of ill health and workplace harm linked to a key industry supplying the global energy transition. A report published in April by Indonesia’s human rights commission, known as Komnas HAM, cited Central Sulawesi provincial health data showing respiratory infections reached 305,191 […]
