Cepu oil block operation attracts more protests

Protests over the Cepu oil block continued in Central Java on Monday, with 250 residents demanding to be involved in the project while other protesters rejected ExxonMobil Corp.’s involvement in the oil block’s operation.

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“Our reason for protesting is that ExxonMobil is a U.S. colonialist. We’ve been ruled by the Dutch. Freeport and Newmont are our foreign rulers, too. So we reject another colonialist in the Cepu Block,” the protest coordinator Khofid Syaifulah told The Jakarta Post Monday.

The Jakarta Post