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...Hugo] Chávez," Venezuela's radical socialist President. Says Bert Supit, founder of Manado-based NGO Majelis Adat Minahasa and one of the gold mine's chief opponents: "We want to remain Indonesian, but we don't want to be dictated to by the élites in Jakarta. We need to find a system that allows the local people to have a voice in their affairs...
...This democratic flowering has a downside: it has sparked seemingly endless turf warfare between Jakarta and the country's provincial and local governments. The sparring often results in conflicting regulations, uncertain lines of authority and onerous tax burdens. Contributing to this hostile environment are corruption, a capricious legal system and local suspicion of foreign companies, which are often viewed as carpetbaggers rather than investment partners. Not that Indonesia is a complete pariah to outside investors. Foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased in recent years as the economy has improved. But reform is required, economists say, if Indonesia is to become...
...companies before the start of production, which effectively increased the financial risk of searching for new fields. In 1998, oil companies drilled 145 exploratory wells in Indonesia; in 2007, as oil prices soared, only 39 were sunk, according to the Center for Petroleum and Energy Economics Studies in Jakarta. Once a major oil exporter and East Asia's sole member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), today Indonesia can no longer meet domestic demand without imports; Jakarta this month suspended its membership in OPEC...
...with a presidential election looming in 2009, they fear he has little hope of achieving much more ahead of the vote. "He's become more focused on not making mistakes than doing anything positive on potentially controversial issues," says John Arnold, president director of consulting firm APCO Indonesia in Jakarta...
...that the area also badly needs the jobs and the tax dollars the mine will bring. "People need to eat," he says. But other villagers have battled Archipelago ferociously, even forming their own NGO, called the Alliance of People Against Mining Waste, to stage protests and lobby in Jakarta. Says Tajudin Hema, one of the leaders of the antimine group: "We don't want to have waste in the sea, on the land or in the air." Tajudin last year was sentenced to 18 months in jail for inciting a violent 2006 protest during which...