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How Gulf investors could turn Indonesia’s Halmahera Island into a cleaner island, and out of Israel’s reach

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How Gulf investors could turn Indonesia’s Halmahera Island into a cleaner island, and out of Israel’s reach
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Halmahera is an island in Indonesia’s North Maluku province. It holds the country’s largest known reserve of nickel, a metal the world wants very much now because it is used in electric car batteries. For years, this reserve has been dug up as fast as possible, with little thought for the people who live there. Now a second problem has appeared on the same island. An Israeli-rooted company has just won a geothermal contract in Halmahera, in a country whose citizens have marched by the hundreds o

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