Indigenous communities resisting dams in Indonesia claim they face repression, rights abuses

Mongabay
Apr 27, 2017, 3:37 pm168 pts
In October 2014, when developers entered Seko and Central Seko to begin preliminary work on a 480-megawatt hydroelectric dam, the communities living there say no one asked their permission. The area, in the Seko Subdistrict of North Luwu, in the southern part of Indonesia's Sulawesi Island, is home to…

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