Golfrid Siregar dedicated his life to defending Indonesia’s environment and exposing corruption.
It’s a role that his family fear may have cost him his life.
Since 2016, Golfrid Siregar worked as a lawyer in the North Sumatra chapter of WALHI – Indonesia’s largest and oldest environmental advocacy NGO.
His recent work involved filing a lawsuit against the Governor of North Sumatra over the approval of a controversial hydroelectric dam that encroaches on the habitat of endangered orangutans.
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