Weak and Powerless

Fuel smuggling is rampant, with little supervision of distribution. Even Pertamina is shrugging its shoulders.

September 20, 2005

IT has been a week since Milet has driven around in search of passengers. The minibus driver has instead been busy running around to gas stations in the oil city of Balikpapan, East Kalimantan.

It is not only Milet who has changed jobs, but many other minibus drivers, and it has been their dream to make a big profit from fuel which has resulted in them choosing this new work.

It is easy. They buy and fill up the gas tanks of their minibuses with Pr

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