Eksploitasi hutan Pulau Pagai Selatan dan Pagai Utara di Kepulauan Mentawai menyebabkan perempuan adat kesulitan mendapatkan air bersih.
Rus Akbar Saleleubaja has been a journalist since 2003 with Tabloid Puailiggoubat (now mentawaikita.com), focusing on indigenous peoples and environment in Mentawai. He also occassionally reporting for okezone.com, sindonews.com and inews.id, while working as freelance photographer for Agence France-Presse (AFP).