08/05/2026
‼️BREAKING‼️ Greenpeace Southeast Asia activists were taken to a police station after peacefully calling on ASEAN leaders to act on the plastic crisis and fossil fuel dependence.
On the opening day of the 48th ASEAN Summit in Cebu, Philippines, the activists held a peaceful protest urging ASEAN leaders to end the plastic and waste crisis, hold polluting corporations accountable, and move the region away from the fossil fuel dependence driving climate harm.
Instead of silencing peaceful protest, ASEAN leaders must listen to the message: communities across Southeast Asia are already being harmed by landfill collapses, toxic fires, polluted air, and plastic pollution they did not create.
The real danger is not peaceful activism. The real danger is a system that allows corporations to keep flooding our region with single-use plastics while communities pay the price with their health, livelihoods, and even their lives.
Greenpeace Southeast Asia calls for the immediate release of all activists and urges ASEAN leaders to act instead on the plastic crisis at hand: reduce plastic production, phase out problematic single-use plastics, strengthen waste prevention policies, hold corporate polluters accountable, and support a just transition to reuse.
As of this writing, our activists are currently at the Lapu-Lapu Police Station 2 and have not been permitted to leave.