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...Correction: the picture is captioned "Indonesia's Sungai Gerong Refinery on the River Musi at Jakarta" [Feb. 25]. Anyone who has lived there knows that Sungai Gerong is on the Musi River near Palembang, on the island of Sumatra. Jakarta, on the island of Java, is far away...
Indeed, overcrowding is a problem on the entire island of Java, where 60% of the nation's population lives (and where the density is 1,500 people per sq. mi.). Accordingly, the government is urging the Javanese to migrate to the less-populous outer islands. A highway is being built through the Sumatran jungle, for example, that will open up vast sections of the big island, which is 1½ times the size of Japan...
...Ocean. The main island, with a population of 500, has been ruled more or less benevolently like a feudal fiefdom for the past 145 years by descendants of a Scottish sea captain named John Clunies-Ross. He settled in the coconut-growing islands in 1827, imported Malay workers from Java to harvest the copra for export, and in 1886 his grandson obtained a grant in perpetuity to the islands from Queen Victoria...
...other three areas: Java, northeastern Brazil and Central Luzon, breeding ground of the Philippines' Huk terrorists...
...Indonesia's timber exports to $110 million last year, 70% over 1969, and expect to double that by 1973. Working with Pertamina, the state-owned oil monopoly, several foreign firms-including U.S.-owned Atlantic Richfield Co. and Union Oil Co.-recently began producing oil from wells in the Java Sea and adjacent waters. Already the major oil producer in the Far East, Indonesia expects to pump out 1,000,000 bbl. a day this year and 2,000,000 daily by the mid-1970s. That would about equal the present output in Iraq...