Court case over land delays Jokowi plans for Java power plant
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Jakarta
INDONESIA'S top court will rule whether the state can forcibly purchase land from farmers refusing to make way for a power plant, a test of President Joko Widodo's efforts to get stalled infrastructure projects moving.
Construction of the US$4 billion Batang coal-fired station on Java island was supposed to begin in 2012 but has been held up by villagers unwilling to sell their land, a common obstacle to projects in Indonesia. Mr Joko, better known as Jokowi, formally kicked off work at the site in August, yet three months later full-scale construction has not begun.
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