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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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What Stops Working Once You Leave Java Behind for Sumatra

Sumatra holds 22.5 percent of Indonesia's economy and half Java's toll network, and its railways do not connect. What changes once you reach Medan.

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