The struggle of indigenous women in Mentawai to get clean water
Exploitation of the forests of South Pagai and North Pagai Islands in the Mentawai Islands has caused indigenous women to have difficulty obtaining clean water.
Author: Rus Akbar Saleleubaja
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).