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Black Paradise: Indonesia's Toxic Flood
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Black Paradise: Indonesia's Toxic Flood

52 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Bali-based activist Daru has spent fifteen years fighting plastic pollution, confronting factories that burn imported waste for fuel and spit black smoke into villages. The film follows her work as she documents how microplastic particles have entered the food chain, even as Indonesia's 2019 ban on plastic waste imports fails to stop thousands of tons still arriving illegally from Europe, South Korea, and Canada. The camera moves beyond Bali to the wider archipelago, where mining and factory expansion have replaced biodiverse forests, poisoned coastal waters, and gutted local fishing communities, with uncontacted tribes now caught in the path of resource extraction. The film also tracks the government's response to Jakarta's sinking coastline: a new capital under construction in Borneo, a relocation project that is itself driving fresh deforestation and displacing the people already living there. Interviews with residents, fishermen, and officials sit alongside footage of burning waste piles and industrial sites, building a portrait of a country fighting environmental collapse on multiple fronts at once.