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Greater Jakarta: Activists demand to see reclamation docs
A group of activists and fishermen incorporated in the Save Jakarta Bay Coalition has submitted a demand to the Public Information Commission (KIP) for the Environment and Forestry Ministry to publish biweekly environmental reports from developers
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group of activists and fishermen incorporated in the Save Jakarta Bay Coalition has submitted a demand to the Public Information Commission (KIP) for the Environment and Forestry Ministry to publish biweekly environmental reports from developers.
The reports are among the requirements that two developers, PT Muara Wisesa Samudera and PT Kapuk Niaga Indah, must fulfill in return for the lifting of administrative sanctions imposed on them by the ministry last year.
Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta) lawyer Nelson Simamora said the coalition had requested that the reports be opened to the public in May this year, to which the ministry responded stating it would need time to compile the reports. However, three months later the ministry still had not sent the reports.
The coalition sent an objection letter and in response received a letter dated Oct. 4 that only stated that the administrative sanctions had been lifted. “We want to know the process, how the developers improved the reclamation plans, but instead they only tell us that they have lifted [the sanctions],” Nelson said on Thursday.
The coalition includes LBH Jakarta, the Indonesian Center for Environmental Law (ICEL), the People’s Coalition for Fisheries Justice (KIARA) and the Indonesian Traditional Fishermen Union (KNTI).
