When BP set out to build a £3.5bn natural gas plant in remote West Papua, local villagers hoped for a bright future. But all is not well.
John Vidal
Wednesday March 19 2008
Recently, with hundreds of Indonesian troops just out of sight in scenes of intense security, Prince Andrew, the government’s official business envoy, dropped in on Bintuni Bay, one of Indonesia’s mots remote corners. The plan was to inspect BP’s new £3.5bn natural gas plant. What the Duke of York probably did not know was that he had walked straight into a row between the giant oil company and local villagers.