Ice Verawati, 37, trembled as WhatsApp messages rapidly circulated on her phone, claiming a man named ‘Taufik’ had died in an explosion at a nickel smelter furnace in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province.
Her husband, Muhammad Taufik, 40, worked as a welder at the Chinese-funded plant housing the smelter situated in the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP).




