Indonesia Threatens to Ban Leonardo DiCaprio Over Palm Oil Criticism

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The actor and environmental activist’s social media posts about the destruction of the Leuser Ecosystem have angered the government.



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APR 1, 2016

Culture and education editor Liz Dwyer has written about race, parenting, and social justice for several national publications. She was previously education editor at Good.


http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/04/01/indonesia-threatens-ban-leonardo-dicaprio-over-palm-oil-criticism?cmpid=tpenviro-eml-2016-04-09


In February during his Oscar acceptance speech, Leonardo DiCaprio told a television audience of 34 million that climate change was “the most urgent threat facing our entire species.” It’s a message the longtime environmental activist regularly sends to his 15.1 million Twitter and 5.4 million Instagram followers, with posts about everything from the retreat of glaciers to 2015 being the hottest year on record.

Now a series of posts DiCaprio uploaded this week that turned the spotlight on the environmental and wildlife destruction being caused by Indonesia’s palm oil industry have the actor under investigation by that nation’s government.

DiCaprio, who was in Indonesia, has reportedly departed the country, according to EcoWatch.

“If DiCaprio’s posting in his social media can be categorized as incitement or provocation [against the government], we can blacklist him from coming back to Indonesia,” Heru Santoso, a spokesman for the director general of Indonesia’s immigration department, told BBC News on Friday.

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