Indonesian Village With Seven Coal Plants Resists Arrival of Two More The coal plants in Suralaya run day in and day out to feed demand for power in the nearby capital, Jakarta, and its densely populated periphery. This article originally appeared in Mongabay. Della Syahni February 4, 2021 Every day, Subur and his wife walk past giant chimneys, painted red and white at the crown, pouring smoke out of a cluster of coal plants. Subur, 70, says he had no idea that two new coal-fired plants were to be built around his village of Suralaya: the ninth and 10th plants to be built in this corner of Java, Indonesia the world’s most populated island.