Bribery-tainted coal plant in Indonesia held up as landowners hold out

Mongabay
Nov 13, 2020, 5:55 am224 pts
JAKARTA — Already facing a pandemic, a corruption scandal, and the revocation of its environmental permit, an embattled coal-fired power plant on the Indonesian island of Java faces a new obstacle: landowners refusing the compensation offered by the developer. The 1,000-megawatt plant has been under…

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