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Mika Ganobal

Indonesia

An Aru Islands district government civil servant in Maluku who organized local people, young people, women, government officer and indigenous peoples to against government forest conversion planning to sugar cane plantation industry. Mika Ganobal went to about a hundred village to campaign for people not to give their land for industry, the network growing up and thousand people in the world also support his #SaveAru movement.

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