In 2013, Mika Ganobal was appointed by his friends to represent them as the coordinator of “SaveAru”, a movement to save Aru Islands from a corporation planning to clear up the forests on the island to make way for a sugarcane plantation.  His status as a state apparatus made him prone to threats and pressure….

One day in 2014, Muhidin walked along Sedayu beach in Gangga district, Lombok Utara regency. The 60-year-old man saw a mother turtle just finished burrying her eggs on the shore. Actually, this is a usual sighting for him, even since his childhood.  However, he felt something different about the mother turtle that day. The mother…