In the turquoise waters between the southern Philippines and northern Indonesia, an elderly man from Watunapatto sits in a small wooden boat he built himself from trees felled from the island where his ancestors once migrated when the fishing season changed. The sea breeze caresses his face, wrinkled by time and salt. He doesn’t know…
Tag: Displacement
The Blood in Our Battery: How ‘Green Energy’ Re-fuels a Colonial Legacy
In the lush, biodiverse heart of Halmahera Island, Indonesia, an ancient way of life is under threat. The O Hongana Manyawa, a nomadic forest people, have lived in this rainforest for generations, their existence inextricably linked to the land. They are one of the last few remaining uncontacted Indigenous groups in the country, and their…
Consent Denied: The Hidden Cost of Geothermal Dreams
The air around Poco Leok carries an unsettling silence. The kind that echoes between the slopes of hills where ancestral spirits are said to roam, where rituals of planting and harvest are not just seasonal but cosmological cycles anchoring life to the land. This silence now stretches not from tranquillity but from tension — an…