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Indonesia mass strikes loom over cuts to environmental safeguards and workers' rights

New law to boost investment is a ‘tragic miscalculation’, campaigners say, as unions plan strike action in protestIndonesia has passed a wide-ranging bill that will weaken environmental protections and workers’ rights in an attempt to boost investment, a move condemned as a “tragic miscalculation” that could lead to “uncontrolled deforestation”.Groups Read more…