Inside the Indonesian boomtowns powering the world’s electric vehicles
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center and The Uproot Project Environmental Justice Fellowship. It was produced by Grist and republished by Rest of World. As W.H. Wong hugged his family goodbye before leaving for work on a quiet morning this spring, he felt a lump in his throat. He was headed more than 2,500 miles away, to an Indonesian island so remote that locals say it’s one of the places where spirits go to abandon their children. After two weeks at home in Wenxi, a rural county o...





