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Drilling for Oil the Old-Fashioned Way in ‘Little Texas,’ Indonesia

Published by New York Times World By Hasya Nindita and Ulet Ifansasti · 28 July 2026 at 07:01
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Small pumps and truck engines are used to extract crude from the ground in parts of the country, which has tens of thousands of community-run oil wells.

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