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Now, get the Pope to forbid nuclear power, and we'll be one step closer to fazing out nuclear (and incendently, it will be the one intelligent thing he will have done)

Great news, and very interesting. I never would have known about this if I hadn't been reading this blog (the coverage here is diverse and excellent).

In the same context (of influential religious council, that is), I wish we'd see the same thing in Iran.

at least we could hear some good news from Islamic celergy.

Unfortunately, the Ulama are Sunni; since Iran is mostly Shia, the declaration won't be much help from the biggest short-term risk. The dangers of nuclear power are debatable; the dangers of nuclear weapons proliferation are not.

It is amazing. It's the first time in my life I've encountered an independent (a religious body) to fight against nuclear energy.
Cheers.

Armand Rousso
http://environment.armandrousso.biz/

i've never felt good at haram fatwa before, but since this is for goodness of nature and human at the end too, i'm proud at nu for making this decision. at last, a thing islamic people of indonesia has made.

One step closer to the clear planet. It's reasonable if we remember 'bout the damage affected by nuclear.

Sounds good, but it's nonsense. Indonesia is not a serious candidate for nuclear power - who is going to pay for the reactor? Who will provide the technology? Where will they get the uranium? Who will buy the power? Indonesia will be using coal - they have billions of tons of coal, located in Kalimantan (Borneo) the most pristine rain forest in the world. They just overtook Australia as the largest coal exporter in the world. So we have coal mining and destruction of rain forest happening together on a massive scale. Where is Greenpeace??? Oh, you guys are congratulating yourselves because Apple are recycling iPods. You are fiddling while Rome burns - or in this case, Borneo. Wake up and do something useful for a change.

Dear aburizal,

We agree that nuclear power is 'nonsense' as are the new found nuclear ambitions of countries like Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Bangladesh and even Burma. We also agree that questions around uranium supply, technology transfer, the humungous costs and waste management remain unresolved. But the truth is that despite these obvious concerns these dangerous plans are most advanced in Indonesia.

It has already selected potential sites on the earthquake prone island of Java (more nonsense) and had announced concrete time schedule and budgets to have a first reactor running by 2017. They have also identified Australia and Japan as uranium and technology suppliers.

With or without a reality check, we are ensuring that this nonsense does not spread in any further and is nipped in the bud. The Ullamas have rightfully taken the lead in opposing this nuclear nonsense while we are ensuring that Indonesians are aware of their government's dangerous plans.

We also agree that the 'nuclear nonsense' is distracting us from our vital ongoing work which is to protect the last surviving rainforests of Indonesia from logging corporations (and their European markets) and from the new threat of palm-oil and other bio-fuel plantations (to fuel European cars) which will be the final death knell for what you have rightfully identified as the most pristine rainforest in the world. If you can read Bhasa, you should check out the Greenpeace Indonesia website to understand and support our forest campaign objectives, which we are sure you will appreciate.

Far from only focussing on Apple as you imply our priority is to catalysise an Energy Revolution powered by renewable energy. We oppose coal, the climate killer, in all parts of the world, including Indonesia. As I right this our activists are protesting the construction of the world's biggest, most polluting coal plant in Germany. We are confident that coal will remain under ground in the forests and not find its way to the atmosphere, if our collective efforts are successful and the world will not have to face another nuclear nightmare ever.

Shailendra Yashwant
Greenpeace South East Asia.