Indonesian Ambassador to Singapore, Hotmangaradja Pontas Pandjaitan, described Belitung District in Bangka Belitung Islands Province as a tourist destination ...

Tin mining in one of the world’s main producers of the metal has sparked the latest in a series of conflicts between illegal miners and traditional fishers in Indonesia. The incident stemmed from a ...

Residents of a centuries-old coastal settlement in the world’s largest tin-mining outpost — Bangka Island — fear that the ...

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Miners in Indonesia risk their lives every day by illegally diving up to 65 feet underwater with minimal equipment. Top-earning miners make about $13 a day. The tin they mine gets used in common ...

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recognizes 17 tourist attractions in Belitung Island, Bangka Belitung Islands Province as the world's geopark areas, ...

Bangka Belitung Islands Governor Erzaldi Rosman with her wife Melati Erzaldi. TEMPO “I ask Minister Sandiaga Uno to determine Belitung Regency among the six super-priority tourist destinations with ...

Suge doesn't have a mobile phone, so he uses a friend's to tell us the news: he doesn't want any visitors and he won't talk. His boss has told him not to say anything. They're neighbours and the ...

It's 8am and in Rebo, a fishing village on the eastern coast of the Indonesian island of Bangka, dozens of ragtag, casually dressed young men are gathering around the small harbour, as they do every ...