In Indonesia, a village held hostage by coal pleads for change

Mongabay
Feb 4, 2021, 5:38 am212 pts
BANTEN, Indonesia — Every day, Subur and his wife walk past giant chimneys, painted red and white at the crown, pouring smoke out of a cluster of coal plants. Subur, 70, says he had no idea that two new coal-fired plants were to be built around his village of Suralaya: the ninth and 10th plants to be built in…

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