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Sands and Sensibility: Tipping the Legal, Environmental, and Economic Scale in Indonesia’s Marine Sands Exports
Sands and Sensibility: Tipping the Legal, Environmental and Economic Scale in Indonesia’s Marine Sands Exports A few nautical miles off the coast of Tanjung Balai Karimun, a small island town in Riau Archipelago Province of Indonesia, a tug boat carrying what appears to be thousands of glittering tiny white gold grains enters one’s peripheral vision. The boat moves ever so slightly as to not cause even the lightest sway that