Word: copra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indonesia urgently needs economic help; first to improve its war-ruined transportation system and second to regain its prewar productive capacity. Indonesia's biggest dollar earners-rubber, oil and copra -were coming back strongly, but the output of coffee, tea and kapok had still a long climb ahead. Before the war, Indonesia produced enough rice to supply her own needs. Now, rice imports are costing her $15 million annually. EGA has already agreed to provide $40 million in textiles, medicine and agricultural tools, and the Indonesians are hoping for another $100 million from the Export-Import Bank...