TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A total of 1,500 indigenous people living at the foot of Mount Rajabasa in South Lampung objected to the construction of a geothermal project. The residents are worried that the geothermal exploration process will destroy their livelihood.
"There are thousands of lives in eight sub-districts relying on Mount Rajabasa," said Rajabasa Indigenous People's Legal Speaker Yahudin Kayhar on Wednesday, May 29.
The indigenous people, coming with their traditional clothes, requested the company to stop the pier construction at Sukaraja Village in Rajabasa Sub-District of South Lampung. Their protest halted all operation of heavy machinery. On location, the indigenous people conducted public speech and put up banners that stated their objections against the geothermal project.
NUROCHMAN ARRAZIE