A Project Under Fire

The Jakarta government is planning to use an environmentally friendly technology in the disposal of city waste in Bojong. So why do the locals oppose the plan?

September 9, 2003

THE residents of Bojong are now acting more like environmental activists. Last week the villagers, most of whom are sand diggers, demonstrated outside the Jakarta city council shooing officials who tried to block their way and collecting signatures. What's making the residents of Bojong in the subdistrict of Kelapa Nunggal in Bogor, West Java, act that way?

Rubbish, that's what it is. It seemed that the contract the Jakarta city government

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