An "eco-city", a mining complex, and a massive project to grow food and fuel are all part of an Indonesian growth drive that activists allege is causing deforestation and dispossession.

The projects have been sped by a deregulation campaign that began in 2020 with an "omnibus law" that reformed dozens of regulations at once to boost investment and create jobs in Southeast Asia's largest economy.

But the law had to be revised just three years later after parts were ruled unconstitutional.

Now it faces fresh legal jeopardy, with two challeges before the constitutional court brought by environmentalists and rights activists who say the drive does little to help ordinary people.

It is "being used as a pretext to legitimate big industrial projects", said Salsabila Khairunisa, a researcher a

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