US EditionEnvironment Fears over $6 Bn Indonesia EV Battery Project: NGOs
EAST HALMAHERA, INDONESIA, JUN 25 – The $6 billion project aims to position Indonesia as a global EV battery hub but raises concerns over environmental damage and threats to indigenous communities, says Greenpeace and other NGOs.
- On June 29, President Prabowo Subianto of Indonesia is set to officially open a $6 billion electric vehicle battery factory on Halmahera, supported by CATL, Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, and the state-owned company Antam.
- The project aims to capitalize on Indonesia's position as the world's largest nickel producer, driven by a 2020 nickel export ban that spurred domestic industrial growth.
- Located near the Weda Bay industrial park, the complex will handle nickel mining through cathode production, but mining here has already caused extensive deforestation and environmental damage.
- Advocates warn that operations threaten the uncontacted Hongana Manyawa tribe, whose land is mined by at least 19 companies covering 40% of their territory; Caroline Pearce called this a “death sentence.”
- Environmental damage and community repression highlight challenges despite Indonesia's renewable energy goals, suggesting urgent need for stronger protections alongside industrial development.
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NGOs: Environment fears over $6 billion Indonesia EV battery project
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 has spurred a domestic
Environment fears over $6 bn Indonesia EV battery project: NGOs
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.
Their ancestral forest is already destroyed by the extraction of nickel, but in the next few days the Indonesian government will announce the construction of a factory of electric car batteries on the island of Halmahera, the largest of the Moluccas archipelago. But this, Survival International denounces, will mean a catastrophe for the about five hundred Hongana Manyawa , the uncontacted people living on the island. The project will lead to the…
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