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A small fishing community is facing eviction under plans to transform Indonesia’s Rempang Island into a solar panel “ecocity”. Around 7,500 islanders are fighting to keep their homes as the government plans to uproot them to make way for a multi-billion dollar Chinese-backed manufacturing hub.
Nikita Sud, of the University of Oxford, has visited the island and, in our latest Insights long read, reports on the violent backlash from state forces as protestors took to the streets. She believes Rempang is just the latest “sacrificial zone” in the international quest for green energy which is reliant on developing countries. “The transition to green energy, far from creating a green new deal for all,” she writes, “is actually reinforcing entrenched inequalities and hierarchies.”
Meanwhile, our extensive coverage of events in the Middle East continues here. And read about how vaccine research in Brazil hopes to help people with addictions to cocaine and crack, including pregnant women and their
offspring.
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Paul Keaveny
Investigations Editor, Manchester, UK
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People shout slogans during a protest in Jakarta against plans to evict 7,500 residents from Rempang island to make way for a Chinese-owned glass factory as part of an ‘Ecocity’ development.
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Nikita Sud, University of Oxford
The international quest for green energy is reliant on ‘sacrificial zones’ in developing countries.
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Iranians stage a rally outside the former U.S. embassy in Tehran in 2022.
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