January 6, 2024

In Indonesia’s Chinese-funded nickel smelters, lives put ‘at stake’ as safety fears mount

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).

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3247493/indonesias-chinese-funded-nickel-smelters-lives-put-stake-safety-fears-mount

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