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Dec 2, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Garry Lotulung
Many lives are intertwined with nickel mining on Indonesia’s Halmahera Island: Indigenous peoples, mining employees, smelter workers, fishers, farmers, and health care workers. Indonesia, the world’s largest supplier of nickel, is on a quest for an industrial economic boom linked to the mineral, which is in high demand to make electric vehicle batteries.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
thexylom.com | Garry Lotulung
This is the first story in our two-part photojournalism series “Parched and Drenched” on the water crisis in Indonesia. Read the second story here. In the summer of 2024, several villages in Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia dealt with a months-long drought. Climate change has changed the rainfall patterns in the region, shifting the regular patterns of the monsoon as well as the agriculture that depends on it.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
thexylom.com | Garry Lotulung
In Indonesia, and thousands more are at the mercy of the oceans as global sea levels rise and threaten coastlines. But even one of the largest islands of Indonesia can’t escape this fate. While villages in the Yogyakarta province of central Java get ravaged by drought, coastal villages in Karawang in western Java and Pekalongan in central Java have slowly been eroding due to the rising seas. Cemarajaya Village in Karawang has experienced material damage from sea level rise.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
thexylom.com | Garry Lotulung
This is the first story in our two-part photojournalism series “Parched and Drenched” on the water crisis in Indonesia. In the summer of 2024, several villages in Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia dealt with a months-long drought. Climate change has changed the rainfall patterns in the region, shifting the regular patterns of the monsoon as well as the agriculture that depends on it. As a result, water sources that villagers can actually utilize have become rare, or in some cases, non-existent.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
news-decoder.com | Garry Lotulung
On the island of Java, climate change has disrupted the traditional weather cycles, leaving residents trying to figure out how to survive months without rain.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
climatechangedispatch.com | Thomas Richard |Garry Lotulung
Swathes of rainforest and coastal communities are being destroyed by a nickel mining boom in Indonesia sparked by the race to transition away from fossil fuels. [emphasis, links added]Across the country, a major drive to exploit the country’s abundant natural resources is underway.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
msn.com | Garry Lotulung
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Garry Lotulung
The belching chimneys of PT Obsidian Stainless Steel, a nickel processing complex in Konawe Regency Credit: Garry Lotulung Swathes of rainforest and coastal communities are being destroyed by a nickel mining boom in Indonesia sparked by the race to transition away from fossil fuels. Across the country, a major drive to exploit the country’s abundant natural resources is underway. These photographs capture the sheer scale of the production process. Rows of chimneys, belching smoke and fumes,...
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May 27, 2024 | 
religionunplugged.com | Garry Lotulung
Photos by Garry Lotolung Hundreds of pilgrims left Cilacap at 3:30 a.m. and arrived in Pekuncen Village at around 4 p.m. "We were tired and had many challenges. The challenge is if your feet are injured or have cramps,” said one pilgrim who only identified himself as Purwadi. “It's nice to have lots of friends.” Purwadi said he has been involved in preserving this tradition since he was a teenager or after being circumcised when he was in junior high school.
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May 27, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Garry Lotulung
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