Indonesian Supreme Court Terminates Water Privatization!

A coalition of activists, trade unions and Jakarta residents filed a class-action lawsuit in 2012 claiming that the companies failed to guarantee people's right to clean water. The companies both engaged in price differentiation that disproportionately taxed low-income residents and afforded them huge profits. The coalition won its case in the Jakarta District Court in 2015, but it took two more years for the Supreme Court to uphold its constitutionality.”

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Oct 20, 2017




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