Revealed: How a leading Indonesian EV supplier covered up toxic pollution
Leaked documents indicate that Indonesia's Harita Group contaminated Obi Island's water with toxic chromium and apparently misled investors in a $660M IPO – all to cash in on the soaring demand for battery materials.
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Credits:
Reporters: Serdar Vardar, Kiyo Dörrer, Eli Moskowitz, Alon Aviram
Supervising Editor: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Video Editor: David Jacobi
Additional Animations: Adam Adada
Fact-check: Kirsten Funck
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon
In coorperation with:
The Gecko Project
OCCRP
Additional footage:
The Gecko Project
Mongabay Indonesia
JATAM
Rifki Anwar
Additional interview: Peter Pawlicki, Electronics Watch
Read more:
OCCRP Article:
https://www.occrp.org/en/investigatio...
The Gecko Project:
https://thegeckoproject.org/articles/...
Company profile Harita Nickel: https://careers.haritanickel.com/publ...
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:48 Why nickel?
01:56 Harita’s role and history
04:08 What is hexavalent chromium?
05:00 The contamination
06:39 On the ground
08:46 The cover-up
10:00 Other problems
11:30 Where does the nickel go?
13:28 What now?
15:26 Possible solutions