Farmers Protest against Cement Factory in Jakarta

About 50 farmers protest for the fifth day by binding their feet in concrete inside wooden boxes at the Indonesian state palace in Central Jakarta.
The group, from Mount Kendeng in rural Central Java, is protesting an environmental permit granted by the provincial government to state-owned cement manufacturing giant PT Semen Indonesia. The permit allows the company to operate factories and a mine in the Rembang regency.

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Shoot date: 17/03/2017

Locations: Indonesia, Jakarta, Southeast Asia

Credit line: © Jurnasyanto Sukarno / Greenpeace

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Farmers Protest against Cement Factory in Jakarta

Fifty farmers have protested for the fifth day by binding their feet in concrete inside wooden boxes at the Indonesian state palace in Central Jakarta.
The group, from Mount Kendeng in rural Central Java, is protesting an environmental permit granted by the provincial government to state-owned cement manufacturing giant PT Semen Indonesia. The permit allows the company to operate factories and a mine in the Rembang regency.
Protesters claim that the presence of the factory compromises the quality of mountainous water sources, having disastrous consequences for agriculture in the highly fertile region. They insist any damage to their feet from cementing them inside wooden boxes is insignificant when compared to lasting consequences to the environment, their community and future generations.

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