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Lights Out in Indonesia

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Jul 16, 2008
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After years of chronic underinvestment in energy infrastructure, Indonesia is heading the list of Asian countries struggling to keep its lights on. It has been forced to schedule a series of rolling blackouts across the capital city of Jakarta and the industrial zone of Tangerang over the next two weeks as one of the main gas suppliers for state-owned e…

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