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  • ‘Mud river’ could sink Bakrie candidacy

    ‘Mud river’ could sink Bakrie candidacy

    A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD natural disaster in the eastern part of Indonesia’s Java island that has remained an unresolved environmental and human tragedy is threatening to weigh on next year’s presidential elections. The disaster, an incessant mudflow that began near a Lapindo Brantas oil- and gas-drilling site – owned by the powerful Bakrie family – days after an…

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