Batam’s controversial ‘eco-city’ project pushes forward with surprise demolitions

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Batam’s controversial ‘eco-city’ project pushes forward with surprise demolitions - Eco-Business

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Despite Rempang residents rejecting eviction to develop the Indonesian island into a solar hub tied to a deal exporting clean power to Singapore, authorities have begun house demolitions – some unannounced – under the project's "new phase”.

PT MEG’s agreement to develop Rempang with BP Batam can be traced back to as early 2000s, when it obtained permission to develop a tourism zone covering 5,000 hectares, preserving existing villages.

Despite the Indonesian Commission on Human Rights and the Indonesian Ombudsman calling out intimidation tactics by PT MEG and BP Batam in the past year, some locals that Eco-Business spoke to a day before the incident occurred said that violence and intimidation has continued, though authorities now show up less frequently.“Terror and other forms of intimidation still happen.