For over two decades, I have seen many Indigenous communities whose lands have been scarred by mining. From Buyat Bay in North Sulawesi, where Newmont Minahasa Raya poisoned the waters with mercury and arsenic, to Timika in West Papua, where Freeport McMorran’s operations have turned sacred lands into a wasteland. I have seen firsthand the…
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Beyond the Rhetoric: Dismantling Cognitive Colonialism in the Fight for Indigenous Autonomy
For two decades, I have worked at the intersection of Indigenous rights and environmental justice, advocating for my people and many others across Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Over the years, I have witnessed firsthand how Indigenous Peoples’ voices continue to be sidelined within the very movements that claim to support us. This marginalisation of Indigenous…
Hi all, I am back!
As some of you might remember, I shut down this web (www.rallu.xyz) two years ago. The platform that I started in 2004 ended in 2022. Eighteen years of documentation of different types of writing – from an op-ed published at news outlet, left-leaning analysis, travel notes, food-book-movie-music reviews, and many angry notes are gone from…