Elements of Life for Timor People

Women fight mining with peaceful 'weaving protest' in West Timor

Location

Indonesia

Released

November 2014

Duration

12:22

Tags

Fighting Big Corporations
Indigenous made
Indonesia
Women's Rights

Mutis Mountain, an area of rich biodiversity the headwaters for all of West Timor’s major rivers, which supply drinking and irrigation water for much of the people on the island. The indigenous Mollo people’s survival is inextricably linked to these natural resources, which are considered sacred. By organizing hundreds of local villagers to peacefully occupy marble mining sites in “weaving protests,” Aleta Baun stopped the destruction of sacred forestland on Mutis Mountain on the island of Timor.

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INFIS Indonesia

INFIS is home to activists who have a passion for documentary films and has concerned to develop and bring the Indonesian richness of n...
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Nanang Sujana Indonesia

Director, Lighting, Cameraman & Editor Nanang is Indonesia based Filmmaker. He belongs to Rejang people in Bengkulu, Sumatra. Start...

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