Supriyadi's clove plantation appears as well-kept as the yard of a British nobleman's summer palace. Clove trees with their inverted umbrella shape stand in rows upon a lush lawn, placed at well-measured intervals. When Tempo met the owner last month, he was busy painstakingly pruning leaves and branches.

This clove plantationlocated in Campaga village in South Sulawesi's Bantaeng regencyused to belong to Supriyadi's parents. For the past two years,