In Kabaena, an island off the coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia, the lives of the Bajau people are threatened by the rapid expansion of nickel mining. The Bajau Indigenous community is the last nomadic sea tribe in the world. Yet, it has been revealed that nickel mining companies have been illegally clearing protected forests in surrounding areas. In doing so, they fail to employ the FPIC (Free, Prior and Informed Consent) process to consult with local communities. The scale of this deforestation, driven by nickel miners, has been immense, violating the rights of this Indigenous community and threatening their livelihoods. Indonesia's nickel mines have cleared at least 80,000 hectares of forest to extract nickel. Additionally, more than half a million hectares of Indonesian forest are within nickel concessions, putting them at risk of deforestation. This severely impedes the Bajau people's way of life, as their traditional stilted homes are exposed to increased flooding, and three children drowned between 2021 and 2023. Water contamination also causes illness, and the community, which relies on subsistence fishing, now has to sustain itself by venturing further into the sea.