A Taste of Lip-Smacking Victory

A factory in Central Java producing flavor enhancers has paid pollution compensation to local residents. Can this method be applied to a long-running dispute in North Sumatra?

April 16, 2002

The resolution of environmental pollution no longer needs to go through the courts—perhaps alleviating the loss of money, time, and suffering. This alternative was recently taken up by a business making food flavor enhancers, PT Palur Raya, which paid compensation of Rp1.1 billion to the residents of Ngringo village in the Karanganyar regency of Central Java. The resolution, marked with a tap of the gavel, came after the Environment Mini

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