Palm Oil, Coal and Tobacco: Reading Medan's Commodity Economy
Indonesia's top exports are fats and oils, coal, steel and nickel. How that economy built Medan, and what it does to the price of cooking oil.
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Indonesia's top exports are fats and oils, coal, steel and nickel. How that economy built Medan, and what it does to the price of cooking oil.
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