On 11 June 2024, local residents from Dairi Regency, North Sumatra, protested outside the Chinese embassy in Jakarta against the planned Dairi Prima Mineral zinc and lead mine. The project, a joint venture involving Chinese state-owned mining giant China Nonferrous Metal Industry’s Foreign Engineering and Construction Co (NFC), recently secured $245 million in funding from CNIC Corporation, a state-owned investment company ultimately controlled by the China Reform Holdings Corporation (CRHC). CRHC is one of the central enterprises supervised by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC).

Local residents highlighted the high earthquake risk in the area and potential for environmental disaster, particularly from a proposed tailings dam. The community call for investors to withdraw funding, highlighting the project's threat to their future generations and way of life.

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited NFC, CNIC Corporation and CRHC to respond. They did not.