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“We are the Hongana Manyawa. We defend the forests and mountains because we think of them as our parents.” The Hongana Manyawa – whose name means ‘People of the Forest’ in their own language – are one of the last nomadic hunter gatherer peoples in Indonesia. Out of a total population of some 3,500 people, around 500 of them are uncontacted and refuse interactions with outsiders. But the uncontacted people are being sacrificed for electric car batteries. The Hongana Manyawa are running out of rai