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Nov 19, 2014
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s midnight move on Nov. 17 to cut subsidies for the country’s most widely used gasoline and diesel, raising pump prices by Rp2,000 [US16.5¢] per liter each and other actions put him squarely up against what has been called the Oil Mafia, a shadowy cabal close to some of the country’s most powerful political figures.

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