IN the end the government, too, realizes that Buyat Bay is polluted.” Those were the words that Masnah Stirman, a North Sulawesi resident of Buyat in Ratatotok, South Minahasa Regency, uttered softly last Wednesday. The government’s statement that Buyat Bay is polluted with the heavy metal arsenic and mercury could not heal the wounds of the 39-year-old mother, who lost her fourth child, Andini Lensu, early last July.

Masnah said tha