EASTERN PROMISE
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
A BREATH of fresh air is blowing from the Middle East into Indonesia. The Bin Ladin Group, a Saudi conglomerate, plans to enter into the agribusiness sector by planting rice on 500,000 hectares of land in Merauke, Papua. They are also interested in a similar venture in Central Sulawesi, on 80,000 hectares of land.
The total funds to be invested in the two provinces are immense, namely US$4.3 billion, nearly half the deficit in Indonesia's national
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