Indonesia: CSOs issue joint statement urging govt. to resolve disputes in Rempang and cancel Eco-City Project
"Solidarity for Rempang Island: President Jokowi to Stop the Eviction of Indigenous People of Rempang Island, Indonesia", 29 September 2023
National Solidarity for Rempang (Solidaritas Nasional untuk Rempang) and other global organisations expresses our deepest concern and highest solidarity towards the ongoing human rights violations in Rempang Island. The concurrent events circulating in the 17,000 hectare island:
- Security officers brutality and the excessive use of force;
- Minimum participation and access to information;
- Arbitrary Arrest;
- Violation to the rights of Women and Children;
- The absence of Rights to feel safe;
- Business and Human Rights...
The National Solidarity for Rempang and the organisations signed here call upon the Government of Indonesia and China to promptly resolve the dispute in Rempang Island. We implore the government to stop and cancel the Rempang Eco-City Project and to ensure all the basic rights of the indigenous people of Rempang Island. We urge the government to dismiss the Joint Task Force, consisting of Indonesia Police Institution and TNI from Barelang and to do a thorough audit of the implementation of human rights principles in development projects and planning...