Indonesia: The Cost of Illegal Mining I ARTE Documentary

WATCH: Myanmar: The Dying Lake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgnAep7FoHE Already 300 years ago, miners discovered rich tin deposits on the paradisiacally beautiful island of Bangka in Indonesia and began to mine them. But in the last 20 years, the growing demand for tin on the world market developed a real tin rush on Bangka. Every year, 100,000 miners strip mine 80,000 tonnes of tin ore, urgently needed on the world market for metal alloys in electronic devices, including smartphones. However, the brutal pace of mining on 600,000 hectares, a good three-quarters of the island's surface, has caused damage to Bangka's ecosystem. 65% of the forests were felled for open-cast mining and only partially replanted. In the meantime, legal and illegal prospectors are also searching for tin ore in the sea off Bangka: they break open the seabed with drills, pump everything up to sift out the tin ore on board and dump the mud back into the sea by the tonne, damaging all life on the coral reefs under water. Conservationists and fishermen are sounding the alarm; they would like to at least severely restrict mining. However, 60% of Bangkok's economy depends on tin mining... 🗓 Available until the 31/01/2024 ARTE Documentary is here to tell you more about what’s going on in the world of culture and current affairs with powerful, refreshing and entertaining docs subtitled in English for our international fans. Discover a whole world on #ARTEdocumentary​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 💡 Want more from ARTE? Watch more of our programmes on ARTE.tv: ARTE in English 👉 https://www.arte.tv/en/​​​​​​​​​​ Subscribe to our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVog... #Indonesia​​ #tin #ARTEdocumentary​​ #environment #mining


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