The Surabaya Cartel
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Two customs and excise investigators showed up at Billy Haryanto's house in Bekasi, West Java, fragrant Vietnamese rice in tow. They wanted Billy, a trader at the Rice and Crop Market in Cipinang, East Jakarta, to show them how to quickly differentiate between this and other varieties.
The host asked his guests to go to the supermarket and buy 10 kilograms of Thai Hom Mali and two kilograms of Japonica, premium rice varieties from Thailand and Ja
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