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Time Magazine
Vol. 172, No. 12
Issue cover dated September 22, 2008

What's Holding Indonesia Back?

By Michael Schuman

Photo: Fishermen in North Sulawesi, site of a controversial
mining project. Photograph for TIME by John Stanmeyer—VII

Dave Morrison sits on top of an estimated $800 million in gold
but can't get his hands on any of it. The 42-year-old Australian
engineer went to the tropical island of Sulawesi in Indonesia's
east five years ago to open a gold mine on a palm-studded
hillock outside the provincial capital, Manado. He has yet to