Holes in the Geothermal Power Plant Project

Dozens of hot mud ponds appeared in the land of the people in Flores, East Nusa Tenggara, where a geothermal power plant was constructed. People’s crops also decrease.

Dini Pramita

November 29, 2021

ANTONIUS Ano, 27, is convinced that the emergence of more than 60 hot mud ponds in his village Radabata and neighboring ones in Ngada Regency, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), is not a natural phenomenon. According to him the puddles, appearing in people’s fields, are the result of the drilling of geothermal wells by the Mataloko Geothermal Power Plant (PLTP). “Our community leaders are willing to swear that those puddles have never app

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