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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If developed nations don't like it, pay the Indonesians for a greener source of energy. You have destroyed the world, colonized the 3rd world and profited immensely from it. Time to pay up.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

The biggest problem here is that officials use their power to enrich themselves.

Another source from SCMP says Garibaldi Thohir is leading the consortium. While His brother is a minister in the government.

PT Kalimantan Industrial Park Indonesia (KIPI), a consortium of companies from Indonesia, China and the United Arab Emirates, is behind the US$132 billion project in North Kalimantan, which Widodo said will initially sit on 16,400 hectares of land on the island of Borneo but could be extended in future to almost twice that size. Leading the consortium is Garibaldi Thohir, CEO of coal mining giant Adaro Energy, owner of much of the land the project will be built on, and one of Indonesia’s richest people.

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3162586/indonesias-huge-china-backed-green-industrial-estate-raises

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_aid_to_Indonesia

We've been giving Indonesia billions for decades now mate.

What result are we getting? Entire villages being evicted and islands seized for Chinese companies to produce solar panel and an increasingly extremist conservative Islamic movement bringing greater repression to the many islands and peoples?