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Aleta Baun

1966 - Today

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Aleta Baun is an Indonesian environmental activist. She has been described as the Indonesian Avatar. She won the 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize for organizing hundreds of local villagers to peacefully occupy marble mining sites in “weaving protests,” to stop destruction of sacred forest land on Mutis Mountain on the island of Timor. A leader of indigenous Mollo people, she was born to a family of farmers. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aleta Baun is the 741st most popular social activist (up from 775th in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from Indonesia (up from 136th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Indonesian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Aleta Baun ranks 741 out of 840. Before her are Latifa Ibn Ziaten, Ihor Kostenko, Nils Muižnieks, Veronika Tsepkalo, Barbara Gittings, and Reyhaneh Jabbari. After her are Alexandra Shevchenko, Enric Duran, Ruhollah Zam, Zainab Salbi, Medea Benjamin, and Samar Badawi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Aleta Baun ranks 730. Before her are Daisy Fuentes, Troy Kemp, Paul Ereng, Patrice Lhotellier, Ingeborg, and Kerrin Lee-Gartner. After her are Dean Woods, Chris Eubank, Troy Aikman, Mark Kratzmann, Rupert Gregson-Williams, and André Sogliuzzo.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, Aleta Baun ranks 119 out of 158. Before her are Nurfitriyana Saiman (1962), Yayuk Basuki (1970), Rossa (1978), Julia Perez (1980), Bambang Pamungkas (1980), and Lilies Handayani (1965). After her are Rio Haryanto (1993), Hendra Setiawan (1984), Raema Lisa Rumbewas (1980), Chris John (1979), Mia Audina (1979), and Eka Kurniawan (1975).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Indonesia

Among social activists born in Indonesia, Aleta Baun ranks 7. Before her are Kartini (1879), Cut Nyak Dhien (1850), Pattimura (1783), Dewi Sartika (1884), Teuku Umar (1854), and Siti Musdah Mulia (1958).

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