Denpasar, March 24 -- Environment Minister Hanif Faisol Nurofiq on Monday shared his plan to seek lawful compensation from producers of goods who fail to prevent the environmental pollution caused by the plastic waste they generate.

"We will sue them with the help of concrete data, and we will soon summon experts for this cause," he informed in Gianyar district, Bali province.

Nurofiq said that the Ministry of Environment is in the process of gathering data from environmental organizations and communities that have been working to help the government address Indonesia's plastic waste issue.

He added that supervisors and investigators from the ministry will study the data to support the formulation of coercive instruments aimed at forci...