Residents from Indonesia's Java urge Japan not to fund thermal power project

Residents (L) from the Indonesian island of Java present a written plea to an official of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation in Tokyo on July 29, 2015, urging the government-run bank not to finance a project to build a coal-fired thermal power plant in Batang, central Java. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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