Setting The Price

The government is tightening the screws on the trade system, to curtail illegal miners and errant businessmen .

October 1, 2013

For nearly three months Ismail has had to work odd jobs. Sometimes he looks for grass; at other times he catches fish in the sea. For the time being, he has had to abandon his regular job as a traditional tin miner in South Bangka. "It is useless. No one is buying," said the 45-year-old man to Tempo last Thursday. That afternoon, he was discovered idling away his time in a wooden shack at a mine site along with three other miners. "There is nothing

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