{"id":1363,"date":"2025-06-26T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ngos-environment-fears-over-6-billion-indonesia-ev-battery-project\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T07:36:00","slug":"ngos-environment-fears-over-6-billion-indonesia-ev-battery-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ngos-environment-fears-over-6-billion-indonesia-ev-battery-project\/","title":{"rendered":"NGOs: Environment fears over $6 billion Indonesia EV battery project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tJAKARTA: Environmental groups raised concerns Thursday over a $6 billion Indonesian EV battery megaproject backed by Chinese giant CATL which is set to open on a once-pristine island, as Jakarta exploits its huge supply of nickel.<\/p>\n

\n\tIndonesia is both the world’s largest nickel producer and home to the biggest-known reserves, and a 2020 export ban has spurred a domestic industrial boom.<\/p>\n

\n\tIndonesian President Prabowo Subianto will inaugurate the project — also backed by China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt and Indonesia’s state-owned Antam — in the east of Halmahera in Indonesia’s Maluku islands on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe complex will encompass a process from nickel mining to production of cathodes, state news agency Antara reported.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut NGOs say Indonesia and the Chinese firms involved have not given assurances about environmental protections at the site, located just kilometers from a huge industrial park where spikes in pollution and deforestation have been reported.<\/p>\n

\n\t“CATL, Huayou Cobalt, PT Antam… must commit to respecting the rights of local communities and the environment before breaking ground,” said Brad Adams, executive director at Climate Rights International, in a statement.<\/p>\n

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\n\t“Communities are repressed, forests are cleared, and pollution goes unaddressed with impunity. This is a chance for the Prabowo government to show that it has learned from those failures.”<\/p>\n

\n\tThe presidential office did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tHalmahera hosts the world’s largest nickel mine by production Weda Bay, where operations have grown and sparked reports of widespread environmental damage.<\/p>\n

\n\tGreenpeace Indonesia said the new project carried “great responsibilities” and the environment and locals “must not take a back seat” to powering electric vehicles.<\/p>\n

\n\t“If the environment and the rights of our most vulnerable people are not prioritized now… we will all pay a high price through worsening biodiversity and climate crises,” Arie Rompas, forest campaign team leader at Greenpeace, told AFP.<\/p>\n

\n\tA CRI report this month warned the Indonesian government was allowing environmental damage to go unchecked around Weda Bay.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAn AFP report last month detailed how the home of the nomadic Hongana Manyawa tribe was being eaten away by the mine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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JAKARTA: Environmental groups raised concerns Thursday over a $6 billion Indonesian EV battery megaproject backed by Chinese giant CATL which is set to open on a once-pristine island, as Jakarta exploits its huge supply of nickel. Indonesia is both the world’s largest nickel producer and home to the biggest-known reserves, and a 2020 export ban…<\/p>\n

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