Climate activists deported for protest (Bali)

[struggle4progress]

Jakarta, Dec. 5 (AFP): An Indian and two other activists, who planned to travel to the UN climate change conference in Bali, were deported for violating their visas by attending a protest.

The trio had given speeches against plans to set up a waste incinerator near Bandung, the capital of West Java, on Sunday, immigration official Nanang Kusdaryanto said. “They were deported via Sukarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta yesterday.”

The three — Shibu Nair from India, Gigie Cruz from the Philippines and Neil Tangri from the US — held tourist visas, which had been violated when they attended the protest, Kusdaryanto said.

The group were members of the Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance and had been on their way to speak at a civil society forum at the climate change summit, said Manny Calonzo, the coordinator of the alliance ...

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1071206/asp/nation/story_8635197.asp

[babylonsister]

1. Wow. They never even made it to Bali.

Busted in Jakarta for protesting a waste incinerator in W. Java. So many problems, so little time or people who care. I hope they're okay.

[NNadir]

2. You're kidding! OHMIGOD! NO!!!!! IT"S THE END OF THE WORLD!

Some yuppie brat travels all the way to Bali to say "Look at me!"

Big fucking deal.

If he wanted to protest incinerators - which are defined by the EIA, by the way, as "renewable energy" and are, in fact, one of the largest such sources listed - the yuppie brat American could have found plenty of incinerators to protest on the American East coast.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/page/trends/table1.html