Court setback doesn’t sway Indonesian villagers fighting a mining firm

Mongabay
Apr 29, 2022, 8:37 am191 pts
JAKARTA — A court in Jakarta has rejected a lawsuit by a remote island community against a gold-mining operation that overlaps onto their villages, in a ruling deemed “problematic” by anti-mining activists. In its April 20 ruling, the Jakarta State Administrative Court said it had no jurisdiction to…

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