The Chinese Palm Oil Bandits

HUNDREDS of tanker trucks transporting crude palm oil (CPO) fill the roads near Datuk Laksamana Port in the Buluh Kasap area of Dumai, Riau. Around 20 kilometers from the port to the left-hand side, the trucks stop on a 2-hectare field at the end of the road.

PT Dumai Bulking, a subsidiary plantation company of PT Duta Palma Nusantara, owns the field. Here on this site are 12 boilers standing 11 meters high lined in a 4-meter circle to accommoda

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