A Church official said yesterday it would support a government investigation of Greenpeace Indonesia over allegations that the group uses funds from an overseas lottery to fund operations in the country.

“If Greenpeace is found guilty of violating the law by using money [in Indonesia] received from gambling, the government must investigate it,” said Father Antonius Benny Susetyo, executive secretary of the commission for ecumenical and inter-religious affairs.

Lotteries and gambling are illegal in Indonesia.

Greenpeace country campaigner Joko Arif said funding from the Netherlands National Postcode Lottery was not used in Indonesia, according to a report yesterday in the Jakarta Globe.

Joko Arif added that money spent by the group in Indonesia came only from local donations.