Manna from Heaven

THE 1997 monetary crisis came as a blessing to some people. While most people suffered from the closure of industries and the bankruptcy of businesses, causing hundreds of thousands to lose their jobs, some in the outlying provinces prospered. Away from the industrial and business centers of Java, smallholder farmers and planters in North Sumatra, East Kalimantan, and Central Sulawesi, made a fortune out of the crisis that crippled the Indonesian

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