An Uphill Struggle
The two civil lawsuits against PT Lapindo Brantas ended in the defendant’s favor. The criminal lawsuit still goes back and forth between the police and the prosecutor.
June 9, 2009
PATRA M. Zen, head of the Indonesian Legal Aid Institute Foundation (YLBHI), was busy going over a 61-page document. It is the dossier of the Supreme Court’s April 3, 2009 ruling rejecting the request for appeal made by YLBHI regarding the Lapindo mudflow litigation. “We’re going to request a review,” said Patra on Tuesday last week.
In the 2006 lawsuit, YLBHI sued the President, Energy & Mineral Resources Minister, Environment Minister
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