ZAELANI is skillful at seeking land for sale. Five years ago, this land broker from the Pringsewu regency in Lampung, South Sumatra, talked his older brother into selling three plots of land. He also persuaded other residents in Gading Rejo, a village in the newly established regency, to sell their land. “Their land was priced quite high compared with the market value,” he told Tempo last May.

The broker received an order from an important p