Indonesia: pepper farmers intimidated by police in an anti-mining protest
Event- Country
- Indonesia
- Initial Date
- Aug 2, 2023
- Event Description
Hundreds of personnel were deployed to secure pepper farmers who were protesting in front of the PT Vale Indonesia camp in Tanamalia Block, Wednesday, August 2, 2023.
These personnel consisted of TNI and Brimob. Even several Brimob personnel were armed with long barrels.
Instead of providing security when the pepper farmers expressed their aspirations to PT Vale, according to a pepper farmer who participated in the action, he was intimidated by one of the Brimob personnel.
"One of the Brimob officers threatened to burn our car if we did not stop the demonstration," he said.
The action taken by the Brimob personnel disappointed the farmers. According to him, the act of threatening residents makes it seem as if the security forces want to protect the company.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Right to Protest
- HRD
- Community-based HRD
- Land rights defender
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: -2.6193208159195223
Longitude: 121.11732227798765
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 2 August 2023, a group of local pepper farmers, were intimidated and threatened by the police during a protest against mining activities in East Luwu, South Sulawesi, Indonesia.