Rabul Sawal on Muck Rack

Rabul Sawal

Maluku
As seen in: Tempo.co, The Jakarta Post, Mongabay, The Daily Star (Bangladesh), Eco-Business, Mongabay-Indonesia, Project Multatuli, ekuatorial.com, RECCESSARY
bukan siapa-siapa

Get in touch with Rabul

Contact Rabul, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Rabul Sawal’s Biography

Read Full Bio →

Freelance journalist based in Ternate Island, North Maluku. My journalism career began with the Aspirasi Student Press Organization (LPM) at Khairun University, North Maluku in 2019. I then became a freelance contributor for Mongabay Indonesia in early 2021 and Project Multatuli in early 2022. I have received various reporting scholarships on various environmental topics, such as energy transition, food, nickel downstreaming, indigenous peoples' conflicts, the palm oil industry, and wildlife. E…

Rabul Sawal’s Journalist Portfolio

See all →
Laporan Sebut Fenomena Bunuh Diri sampai Mati Mendadak Buruh di Kawasan Nikel Teluk Weda

Laporan Sebut Fenomena Bunuh Diri sampai Mati Mendadak Buruh di Kawasan Nikel Teluk Weda

Puluhan ribu buruh di kawasan industri nikel PT Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park (IWIP) bekerja dalam bayan…

View article →
Nasib Hutan Sagu Ketika Industri Nikel Masuk Pulau Obi [1]

Nasib Hutan Sagu Ketika Industri Nikel Masuk Pulau Obi [1]

Junaid Nomor, hanya bisa menatap hampa menyaksikan hamparan hutan sagu menghitam di sisi kiri jalan ketika pe…

View article →
Bara di Tanah Adat Maba Sangaji

Bara di Tanah Adat Maba Sangaji

Kriminalisasi sebelas warga adat Maba Sangaji adalah praktik SLAPP untuk membungkam resistensi masyarakat ata…

View article →
Desakan Audit Menguat Ketika Tambang Nikel di Pulau Obi Terjerat Kasus Suap

Desakan Audit Menguat Ketika Tambang Nikel di Pulau Obi Terjerat Kasus Suap

Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK) mengungkap dugaan kerugian negara sekitar Rp59 miliar dalam pengurusan paj…

View article →
Ketika Warga Sagea Kiya Protes Tambang Nikel Berurusan dengan Hukum

Ketika Warga Sagea Kiya Protes Tambang Nikel Berurusan dengan Hukum

Empat belas warga penolak tambang nikel asal Desa Sage-Kiya, Weda Utara, Halmahera Tengah, Maluku Utara, haru…

View article →
4 Tambang Nikel di Maluku Utara Kena Denda, Bagaimana Pidananya?

4 Tambang Nikel di Maluku Utara Kena Denda, Bagaimana Pidananya?

Satuan Tugas Penertiban Kawasan Hutan (Satgas PKH) menjatuhkan sanksi kepada empat perusahaan tambang nikel d…

View article →

Articles

Indonesia’s nickel boom linked to rising illness and worker harm, reports find

|
By Rabul Sawal
| Mongabay Verified
A newly published report by Indonesia’s human rights commission, Komnas HAM, includes new evidence of environmental and public health harms caused by the nickel mining industry in eastern Indonesia. Mongabay Indonesia has previously reported on increases in respiratory disease recorded by health workers in a community alongside the Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park in North Maluku province.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Indonesia tests shows blood mercury rising at ground zero of world energy transition

|
By Rabul Sawal
| RECCESSARY
The IWIP nickel processing hub on the coast of Halmahera Island in North Maluku province. Image by Garry Lotulung. Just four months after Mongabay reported on a dramatic surge in diagnoses of respiratory illness near Indonesia’s second-largest nickel industrial estate, new data indicate that up to half the local population may have been exposed to unsafe levels of mercury — and one in three to harmful arsenic.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Indonesia tests shows blood mercury rising at ground zero of world energy transition

|
By Rabul Sawal
| Mongabay Verified
Pathology results from a sample size of 46 people living near Indonesia’s Weda Bay Industrial Estate (IWIP) showed a large share in the community around the nickel-processing center had unsafe levels of arsenic and mercury in blood samples.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 13 licensed articles (14 Total)

Interview

See all →

What was your first job as a journalist?

Telling the truth and defending citizens

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Since elementary school, I'm not familiar with typewriters

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

John Hersey
 •  Privacy  •  Terms  •  Security and Legal  •   •   •   • 

© 2026 Muck Rack

SOC 2® Certified