Foreigners beware

摘要

Commercial oil production began in Indonesia in the 1880s. Firms have been drilling for oil and gas there ever since, despite the occasional coup and financial crisis. Still, the country is finding new ways to make life hard for them. On November 13th Indonesia's Constitutional Court said that parts of the country's 2001 oil-and-gas law were unconstitutional, and the court dissolved BPMigas,the state regulator.