Some rubber and oil palm plantation areas in Bayat Hilir and Pangkalan Bayat villages in Musi Banyuasin regency, Palembang, are damaged. There are hundreds of open fields, each about 100 square feet. There used to be traditional oil refineries there.

When Tempo visited the area on August 23, there still stood oil drums and ragged tarpaulins that once functioned as refinery roofs. One villager said the air here used to be full of smoke from the bur