Mining Concessions for Sale

Regents across Indonesia are known to sell mining permits for campaign funds. Antigraft investigators are cracking down.

March 4, 2014

In mid-February, officials from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) headed to Palu, Central Sulawesi, for a meeting with the province's governor, and all the regents and mayors under him. In the middle of the meeting, KPK Deputy Chief Busyro Muqoddas had a sudden inclination to visit Grand Forest Park and Poboya Recreational Park outside Palu. He had heard that conservation zones there were being pillaged by gold miners, and he wanted to c

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