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...gigantic mud pit dotted with shelters rigged out of blue and red tarpaulins. He also worked security for the geological team that surveyed the Talawaan area for Aurora; the company now plans to write off most of its $43 million investment and hand the rights over to its Indonesian partner. Whoever takes over will have to contend with Tamban...
...looks like a prolonged crisis, in which everything that looks bad right now only gets worse. This is not a climate that will encourage foreign investment. All around you see symptoms of collapse. There has been a 200 percent rise in piracy in Indonesian waters. In Jakarta, it has gotten so bad with robberies that if anyone catches a robber in their house, often the neighbors are called and the man is lynched or burned to death on the spot...
...replacing them with junior-league footballers and foreigners. Two came back and signed multiple-year contracts. It's hard to argue with Suwarso's results, however, as attendance so far this season is up 1,000% to about 10,000 per game. And if he succeeds, other Indonesian entrepreneurs will surely be inspired to grab a piece of a market estimated to have a potential yearly revenue of $15 million...
...pitch diversions are part of an effort to make his team a complete entertainment package?and justification for raising ticket prices 300%. Another innovation Suwarso has in mind: season tickets. Amazingly, that would be a first in the National League. "No team has ever made a profit in Indonesian football," says Suwarso, a soccer fan who didn't let his enthusiasm for the game wane during his four years at Indiana's Purdue University. "My whole club is designed to make money...
...already sold two of his Indonesian players, to teams in Holland and Britain, and he believes a young Singaporean striker will net him an additional $250,000. To make his plan work, however, he needs to secure the kind of corporate sponsorship one sees around the pitches of the Serie A or Premiership. In Suwarso's dreams, of course, every player has his chest festooned with logos. So far coffeemaker Torabika and cement manufacturer Indocement have signed on. "We're changing more than the game," says Suwarso's brother and assistant coach Marvin. "We're hoping to change the culture...