Tag «Greenpeace Indonesia»

Activists stop construction at Southeast Asia’s biggest planned coal plant

Jakarta, 30 March 2017 – Activists today brought construction to a standstill for 13 hours at what will be the largest coal power plant in Southeast Asia. The activists are demanding the Indonesian government cancel the Batang coal power plant project and that the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) pull its financial support. The …

Greenpeace launches maps tracking “near real-time” Indonesian deforestation and fires

Jakarta, 15 March 2016 — As a new forest fire crisis builds in the country, with fire hotspots numbering in the hundreds on many recent days, Greenpeace Indonesia today launched a mapping tool allowing the public to monitor fires and deforestation in near-real time, and see to an unprecedented extent who controls the land where …