How many people were arrested when police stopped a protest by Greenpeace in Indonesian Sumatra?”
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Police broke up a protest by the environmental group Greenpeace against deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday, arresting 12 foreign and six Indonesian demonstrators, an official and an activist said. The protesters had chained themselves to cranes at a paper mill. Authorities deported seven of the foreigners, and the other five were expelled from the province, but allowed to stay in Indonesia, said Jumintar Lubis, head of immigration in the Riau province where the demonstration took place. The protests come ahead of a U.N. climate change conference in Denmark next month. Activists say Indonesia’s once abundant forests are rapidly being destroyed, contributing to global warming and threatening endangered wildlife as well as the livelihood of local tribes. Indonesia is the third-largest emitter of heat-trapping carbon gases in the world after the United States and China. Slash-and-burn land clearing is used to make way for oil palm plantations
Police broke up a protest by the environmental group Greenpeace against deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday, arresting 12 foreign and six Indonesian demonstrators, an official and an activist said. The protesters had chained themselves to cranes at a paper mill. Authorities deported seven of the foreigners, and the other five were expelled from the province, but allowed to stay in Indonesia, said Jumintar Lubis, head of immigration in the Riau province where the demonstration took place. The protests come ahead of a U.N. climate change conference in Denmark next month. Activists say Indonesia’s once abundant forests are rapidly being destroyed, contributing to global warming and threatening endangered wildlife as well as the livelihood of local tribes. Indonesia is the third-largest emitter of heat-trapping carbon gases in the world after the United States and China. Slash-and-burn land clearing is used to make way for oil palm plantations, mines and commercia
