Indonesian Gold

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.