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Article: The Politics of Power: Freeport in Suharto's Indonesia.(Book Review)
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- Contemporary Southeast Asia
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- August 1, 2004
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The Politics of Power: Freeport in Suharto's Indonesia. By Denise Leith. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. 347pp.
Indonesia's mining industry is at the centre of much of the political drama in the archipelago. Large foreign companies dominate mining, giving rise to nationalist concerns over who controls the country's natural resources. And what is at stake from an economic point of view is not small. Indonesia has extensive reserves of hard minerals and coal. Mining produces a significant share of Indonesia's export revenue--it was the dollar-earning export of coal, copper, gold, silver, nickel, tin and bauxite that helped arrest somewhat ...