The Fifth Season: Pancaroba - Softcover

Collison, Kerry B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 187705917X ISBN 13: 9781877059179

Publisher: Sid Harta Publishers, 2009

Synopsis

A chilling story of survival of three women fleeing the savagery of a post?Suharto regime, and an Indonesia floundering on the brink of social, political and economic collapse. Fifth Season is also an account of tens of thousands of innocents slaughtered throughout the archipelago as a result of ongoing sectarian and separatist upheaval. This is the story of Indonesia?s Fifth Season . . . Pancaroba.

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Synopsis

Based on events surrounding the infamous billion-dollar BRE-X gold fraud, and the determined few who destroyed so many lives in their all-consuming quest for gold in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). When Canadian mining firm Borneo Gold Corporation announces the discovery of twenty million ounces of gold reserves, speculators drive the formerly worthless stock to massive heights. Rich and powerful interests in three countries move to secure control over the deposit. Dayak tribes are forced off their traditional lands, precipitating bloody ethnic feuds and a return to headhunting practices. Indonesian Gold brings a wealth of detail and colour to its depiction of Kalimantan and its ethnic tribes as they resist Moslem migrants from poorer Indonesian islands, and reveals the extent of the devastation visited upon indigenous peoples by multinational mining companies. Author Bio- Kerry B. Collison followed a distinguished period of service in Indonesia as a member of the Australian military and government intelligence services during the turbulent period known as 'The Years of Living Dangerously'. This was followed by a successful business career spanning thirty years throughout Asia. Recognized for his chilling predictions in relation to Asia's evolving political and economic climate through his books, he brings unique qualifications to his historically-based vignettes and intriguing accounts of power-politics and the shadowy world of governments' clandestine activities.

About the Author

Kerry B. Collison followed a distinguished period of service in Indonesia as a member of the Australian military and government intelligence services during the turbulent period known as ?The Years of Living Dangerously?. This was followed by a successful business career spanning thirty years throughout Asia. Recognized for his chilling predictions in relation to Asia?s evolving political and economic climate through his books, he brings unique qualifications to his historically-based vignettes and intriguing accounts of power-politics and the shadowy world of governments? clandestine activities.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sid Harta Publishers
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 187705917X
• ISBN 13: 9781877059179
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416