Censured Sumatra coal plant blamed for sickening children in Indonesia’s Bengkulu

Censured Sumatra coal plant blamed for sickening children in Indonesia’s Bengkulu

BENGKULU, Indonesia — Yesi held her daughter Helda tightly, but the little one still shivered for days in the tropical heat over Teluk Sepang, a bay on Sumatra’s west coast. “Her cough hasn’t stopped for 10 days now,” Yesi told Mongabay Indonesia. “I feel so sorry for her.” Many parents like Yesi say it’s a sanctioned coal power plant, majority-owned by a Chinese state enterprise, that’s to blame for sickening the children in Teluk Sepang, here …