Ann: Review of Mining Activities in NTT, page-18

An environmental disaster, and it should be shut down permanently.

The new Governor Viktor Bungtilu Laiskodat does not think that mining is good for the community.
You may be better  reading about what local residents think rather than the BS Gulf Manganese feeds you. The new Governor went to the election saying that he was against mining.

"Candidate for the Governor of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Viktor Bungtilu Laiskodat said it was inappropriate to build NTT with a mining business.
According to him, as a tourism area, NTT should be built with a tourism-based approach, not mining."

This order may shut down mining completely for many months if not years.
Frankly you cannot blame them for shutting it down when you see the result. There is only 3 manganese mines in Australia whereas it takes 18 mines in Indonesia to produce just 10,000/ month.

Mining and Tourism do not not go hand in hand.








The field trip was to a site approximately 2 hour’s drive from central Kupang (~50kms) to an area with many trans-location settlements housing quite a few East Timorese refugees. The extensive artisanal mining was on a steep hill slope and creek valley floor and was largely abandoned although there was some evidence of continuing deep hole mining.  As with the Kefmananu site the the errosional/sediment impacts from this site are severe. In this case intense wet season storms are likely to wash much of the hill slope into Kupang bay.
The field trip we travelled to a site very close to town that was a model of an unregulated environmental disaster. Large shallow and deep well holes had been dug all over this area on hill sides as well in creek beds. I imagine that this wet season much of this area will be washed away. This site seems too far gone for any type of rehabilitation.