Indonesian Villagers File Objection against JBIC

(Friends of the Earth Japan, 10 November 2016, Jakarta) On November 10, 2016, three villagers affected by "Cirebon coal-fired power plant project in West Java, Indonesia" (*1) handed their objection to the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) at its Representative Office in Jakarta. They also took their protest action in front of Japanese Embassy, calling on JBIC not to decide its loan for the expansion project in Cirebon which is slated to commence the construction within this year or early next year. In the Project, the Unit 1 power plant (660 MW, invested by Marubeni), for which JBIC provided its loan, has already caused serious damages to the community’s livelihood, such as small-scale fishing and salt making. In addition, the expansion or Unit 2 power plant (1000 MW, invested by Marubeni and Chubu Electric Power) has been criticized for the issue of land acquisition and the illegality of its environmental permission.