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...raging and there are no good bars, but all in all, Aceh, Indonesia, is not a bad place to live if you're a foreign employee of the biggest, most profitable corporation on earth. The people who oversee ExxonMobil's gas fields in the province are generally housed in a company-built neighborhood called Bukit Indah. It is a fenced-off and fortified oasis of ranch-style homes and green lawns, a place where kids ride bikes, carefree, on tree-lined streets. There are swimming pools, tennis courts and a nearby golf course. Weekends bring barbecues or softball games...
...Imagine you are one of these people, an oilman from Texas maybe, reared on down-home cooking and wholesome notions of right and wrong. Suppose further you have heard that Bukit Indah's tranquility has been built on Aceh's ashes. You have been told the Indonesian troops whom ExxonMobil funds to protect you and your family?soldiers who salute you in the mornings?spend their nights burning villages, looting and killing at random. Activists are claiming that these troops have used your company's equipment to dig mass graves and are turning your company's warehouses into torture chambers...
...Anwar thinks it should. At a crowded refugee camp in a mosque not far from Bukit Indah, the 30-year-old farmer lifts his shirt to reveal thick, track-like scars, the remnants of wounds he says he received last summer when soldiers, assigned to defend ExxonMobil employees and property, whipped him nightly for a month with ropes of barbed wire. He was also burned with cigarettes and beaten unconscious with a wooden board. They did not kill him, but he wishes they had. Then he would not have had to watch the soldiers shoot his brother in the head...
...Anwar says part of his ordeal took place inside the gates of ExxonMobil's Cluster IV gas field. He says he was dragged, kicking and screaming, past men wearing white uniforms and ExxonMobil hard hats?the company's private security guards. He doesn't know why he was tortured and claims to have no opinion about the Free Aceh Movement (gam), a rebel army fighting for independence from Indonesia. He doesn't want any money from ExxonMobil. But he doesn't have much good to say about the company either. "I hate Exxon," he says, "they have no heart...
...late '90s. And relative prices are still lower than they were in the '60s. That's not to say refinery profit margins haven't increased handsomely from the supply squeeze. Operating profits have surged this year at refiners like Valero and big oil companies like BP Amoco and ExxonMobil. "Refiners have made a killing over the past 15-to-18 months," says Chris Stavros, an oil-industry analyst at UBS Warburg. Stavros points out that the suppliers aren't gouging; they are simply reaping the benefits of market economics swinging their...