Mongabay: A member of Indonesia's National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) held up the Rembang cement factory case as an example of how environmental impact assessments are frequently manipulated by the companies required to undertake them.
"Every mining operation needs an impact assessment, and there's supposed to be a scientific process," Komnas HAM commissioner Nur Khoiron said at a recent discussion hosted by the Indoneisa Institute of Sciences (LIPI). "Unfortunately, it only serves as a tool for...