The federal government has provided at least 1,434 mining allows in East Kalimantan, covering more than 50,000 sq km (19,305 sq miles) – a location larger than Belgium.
Kardi moved his family to East Kalimantan in the 1970 s – as part of a major government-sponsored transmigration program to get individuals off the overcrowded island of Java and into more sparsely inhabited areas of Indonesia.
” Great deals of people didn’t last,” he laughs. “It was too tough so they went house. There were great deals of wild pigs and monkeys – they took our food.”
He has actually seen amazing modification here however has also paid a high personal expense for the advancement that East Kalimantan has actually currently seen.
According to Jatam, an Indonesian mining advocacy network, East Kalimantan has 1,735 inactive open pit mines that come from 1,404 companies w