Everybody smiled in agreement at a lunch in Jakarta, on a day in January 2007. It was a follow-up meeting, after the one in November the year before where representatives from PT Ridlatama approached the Nusantara Group, controlled by former Indonesian Army General Prabowo Subianto. Ridlatama received clear signals from Nusantara, through the series of discussions that occurred over time, that the latter was no longer interested in the 35,000-hec