It can then be turned into plantations growing palm oil, rubber and fast-growing trees for the booming pulp-and-paper industry.
Supply of things like base metals, oil and rubber is crimped after years of underinvestment in mines and oilfields and farms, he says, so prices are heading up.
Unlike urban middle-class families on the main island of Java, these farmers have benefited from the collapse of Indonesia's currency, since that raised the nominal value of cash crops such as coffee, palm oil and rubber.
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The sheets are then soaked in oil, which penetrates the rubber and creates oil-filled cavities around each of the balls, allowing them to rotate freely.
The high oil price makes rubber and plastic more expensive.
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Yet these tracts "give way to rubber and oil-palm plantations owned by untouchable companies, " just as the Kapuas river teems with logs felled by similarly connected operators.
In Peru's Huallaga valley over the past two decades the authorities have helped thousands of farmers to replace 81, 000 hectares of coca with alternatives such as coffee, cacao, rubber and oil palm.
Plants in this family, which include the rubber tree, castor oil plant and the cassava shrub, are typified by small blossoms, the researchers comment.
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Agricultural commodities such as rubber, timber and palm oil are the biggest source of fortunes.
Bakrie is actually the listed holding company for a number of operating companies in the conglomerate's three main lines of business: rubber plantations, telecoms and oil-industry infrastructure.
And we're looking to increase production, as I said, so we can slowly close those vents and see how the containment cap is working and whether or not any oil is forced down by the pressure through the rubber seals, as we've talked about before.
We ought to be ruthless in our oversight of BP, and trying to understand what oil is not being contained that's leaking out around that rubber seal, once we know what that flow rate is.
The purchases included the Canada-based R Wales group of companies, which makes specialist rubber and wear resistant linings for the mining, minerals processing and oil sands industries.
Workers in apparel, rubber, plastics, furniture, primary metals and transportation equipment are especially hard hit by oil price increases.
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