{"id":91733,"date":"2026-07-25T14:43:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/how-families-risk-their-lives-harvesting-toxic-green-mussels-in-indonesia\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T14:43:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:43:52","slug":"how-families-risk-their-lives-harvesting-toxic-green-mussels-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/how-families-risk-their-lives-harvesting-toxic-green-mussels-in-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"How Families Risk Their Lives Harvesting Toxic Green Mussels In Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Indonesia&#8217;s Jakarta Bay, thousands of families are trapped in debt as they harvest green mussels, one of the last <!--more--> surviving life-forms in the increasingly polluted waters. But as the bay offers less, their loans snowball, trapping them in an endless cycle of debt. That pushes them back into the toxic waters that have already killed two-thirds of shellfish in the bay.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 \u2013 Introduction<br \/>\n01:34 \u2013 The Families Shucking to Get By<br \/>\n03:09 \u2013 Hunting in the Toxic Jakarta Bay<br \/>\n07:04 \u2013 How Green Mussels Grow Deformed<br \/>\n07:45 \u2013 Why Workers Get Trapped in Debt<br \/>\n08:30 \u2013 The Global Debt Trap<br \/>\n10:40 \u2013 The Pollution Problem<br \/>\n13:01 \u2013 Inside the Shucking Factories<br \/>\n16:20 \u2013 Why the Mussels Became Dangerous to Eat<br \/>\n17:32 \u2013 Why People Still Buy Green Mussels<br \/>\n20:47 \u2013 Credits<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n#indonesia #mussels #jakarta #riskybusiness <\/p>\n<p>MORE RISKY BUSINESS VIDEOS:<br \/>\nHow Miners Risk Their Lives For Himalayan Pink Salt<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HjSQ10zDB0k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/HjSQ10zDB0k<\/a><br \/>\nFrom Cocaine To Gold: The Cartels&#8217; New Billion-Dollar Trade<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bkTrtv5nVmc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/bkTrtv5nVmc<\/a><br \/>\nWhy Silver Is Breaking New Records<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7q9KYJNu-R8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/7q9KYJNu-R8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Business Insider is a global newsroom covering business, technology, innovation, and the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Visit our homepage for the top stories of the day: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/?utm_source=youtube\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/?utm_source=youtube<\/a><br \/>\nSign up for our newsletters: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/subscription\/newsletter?utm_source=youtube\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/subscription\/newsletter?utm_source=youtube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find Business Insider on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/businessinsider\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/businessinsider<\/a><br \/>\n&#8230; on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/businessinsider\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/businessinsider<\/a><br \/>\n&#8230; on X:  <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BusinessInsider\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/x.com\/BusinessInsider<\/a><br \/>\n&#8230; on TikTok: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/<\/a>@businessinsider<\/p>\n<p>How Families Risk Their Lives Harvesting Toxic Green Mussels In Indonesia | Risky Business | Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Indonesia&#8217;s Jakarta Bay, thousands of families are trapped in debt as they harvest green mussels, one of the last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}