the irony is that they have to sell to Pertamina, which owns most of the gas stations in Indonesia, yet can't provide one near enough for the workers to refuel their vehicles.
Yet it earns them more than growing, say corn, apparently. Not so much a "trap" as an opportunity. Imagine taking it away, what happens to those families dependent on that income.
Yes, and that is passed to the consumer. And now there is a moat of such thinking over the enterprise so it is harder to a newcomer to undercut and brake apart the monopoly.
Maybe they should invest in new wells and well tech. You know, maybe not leak half of the crude into the dirt? This is outrageous. The environment and the workers have no worth while the company makes billions.
The problem with Indonesia is, the state claim ownership to all mines in its territory. Since the state companies (in the case of oil, Pertamina) become the only legal buyers, it become monopolies with all the power to treat the miners horribly. Note: The video is dishonest. The words the man said in 14:25 should be translated to, "I don't hope, I don't ask, for government help." The subtitle was instead said, "I have no hope, no aspiration. Will the government help?" The correct translation is telling of his pride and calling for the government to go to hell. The video translation on the other hand, is just socialism propaganda of the video makers.
I think you're being a little quick to misread it based on your justified frustration with the whole situation. "Will the government help?" is a rhetorical question implying the futility of expecting any help from the government. It is no less disparaging of the government than you suggest it should be. It's not "socialist propaganda" dude. Chill
Without the bogeyman of the European colonialists, the locals have no won to blame, but themselves, this leads those in power to become ever more totalitarian, to stop dissent, which also enables the tiny elite to be corrupt without limit.
Oil City, Pennsylvania yo be specific. My families from there. So is my buddies mom, and they live in Florida of all places. It's a cool old little town. Pretty land
There're apps for your phone, which you can use to get lunch delivered to you. Or even cheaper, have a bloke roll up with a small kitchen mounted on his motorcycle, like a foodtruck with two wheels, within 10 minutes after pressing a button in one of those apps. Although these also make the rounds through the neighbourhoods during lunchtime. Larger food trucks set up shop during lunchtime near schools, officebuildings and factories.
As an Indonesian, i already hear about them several years ago, a lot of locals praised them for actually handling oil by themselves instead of letting larger state owned corporations take it over, it is pretty clear however that their independentness makes their work unsafe and unregulated. however, i can't help but seeing some contradictions in the narration here, the locals wants government's aid so they can explore more potential oil reserve in their land but on the other hand they are trapped? They definitely have no will to abandon these old oil fields in their land, even though they can quite easily do that by selling the land to Pertamina with quite a lucrative prices, the reason they still continue is because they know that these oils are giving them a steady and pretty high income earnings. In my opinion, it is clear that the Government need to standardize their work, giving them more equipment, but it would be impossible without legalizing their work first, incorporating them into Pertamina is an option.
Agreed, but that wouldn't get pity and donations. Unfortunately that's what sells over here. Not logic but "look at the poor people, don't you feel bad for them". While pretty much ignoring what the actual problems are, and sell the rich vs poor story. And then make money off their hardship too 😂 these kind of "journalists" are just scummy
@@MANADOSTREET it's all down to the capital, state owned companies always have the capital to acquire the latest technologies in oil extraction and processing, if you are a bunch of guys that want to harnest black golds in your lawn however, it wouldn't be that easy
"Artisinal refinery" is an entirely new phrase to me, really. This small scale leftover extraction is ridiculously inefficient and extremely polluting. I understand the property owners desire to remain in charge, but it doesn't look like a beneficial strategy to them at all.
they make more money that way. its literally the only way to make ends meet for them. they wouldnt do it if it didnt benefit them more. it was extracted that way for hundreds of years but on a way bigger scale, the area is already ruined. Its fucked up, but i would do the exact same if i were them. theyve been put in a messed up position.
@@ganjalfcreamcorn8438 They are nothing like government contractors. Oil reserves belong to the country, never individuals. The locals only own the land, but not the oil reserves. The locals are just forced to sell their oil to state-owned petroleum company. They are paid to provide a service to the government by extracting oil , but they are not government contractors, but more like freelancers
wildly privileged comment, these men are simply doing what they can. Only making $12 a week I can't imagine they have the cash to upgrade their operations.
I work in Canadian oil and gas and the exposure these guys are get is insane. Just bathing in that produced and oil, then eating with their hands. It still astounds me we still import from these countries. Canada's the 3rd biggest oil and gas reserves in the world. Our sites look as clean as surgical rooms compared to these wells.
Wdym, Indonesia is actually a net importer of oils since the last few decades. The domestic productions had declined and these are basically the crumbs that remains outside of the big oil wells owned by big corporations. Canada probably exports more oil to Asia than vice versa
@@hanselsihotang Yes, this is obviously an outlier cherry picked case. I understand that. But its the concept. We still import huge amounts of oil from countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia. Their environmental standards wouldn't come close to Canada's. We now have super tight regulation on all aspects - exploration, wildlife, reclamation, disposal etc. I've worked in all aspects and environmental was always forefront. Sometimes debilitatingly so.
They don’t have any other choice. To give you an idea, the average income of people working in the city is $200 USD per month. Now imagine their income in rural areas. Their only alternative is farming, which doesn’t even earn them $60 USD per month. That’s why, if there’s a job that can provide at least more than that, they will choose it even if it’s riskier. Don’t compare it to Canada, where the HDI is far beyond theirs.
This just reminded me of something about big pharma! This book called “The 23 Former Doctor Truths by Lauren Clark”. My health shifted in a whole new way.
Cool story bro, zero context, so Im going to assume you got like 10 plus different side effects after buying the book or reading the book. You may want to talk to your doctor about that.
Have you been to every single construction site in America? I am in NYC and the area I work in has dozens of construction sites. I see construction workers going to small mom and pop restaurants and fast-food places just like regular office workers do.
I have been extremely grateful as an Indonesian to have been born into privilege. When I see and hear stories of my fellow countrymen and women struggle, it really makes my blood boil. It's not easy to manage a country with over 200 million people scattered over thousands of kilometers, however, when I see the elite throwing lavish weddings for their pets, senators and the rich stealing from the people, meanwhile people like this that can barely afford school books, uniform, and food for their children. I have to wonder how the political elite sleep at night. I am not a religious person, but I do hope hell exists for people who turn a blind eye to these situations, and I ask forgiveness and mercy for my soul when I die for not being able to help my fellow countrymen and women in need.
In your own little world you can brighten people's condition around you. It's a good thing you recognize your privilege. A lot of privileged people don't recognize that.
And when a person points out about the issues that are prevalent in Indonesia, some indonesians will accuse that person as "malaysian" who just want to criticize Indonesia 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
I can't believe how inefficent this process is. Dropping a bambu stick down a hole and lifting it back up. The liquit spilling all over the ground. Even with limited resoutced you can make this so much safer and profitable
With límited resources? How much is a metal Pipe down there? Should they decide to Buy a metal Pipe or a power plant instead of feeding their families?
@@gerardosalazar527 Had these folks invested even 20% of their revenues back into their business, they would be millionaires today. Refusing to invest in productivity-increasing tools is a sure way to lose your azz in business.
I know they're poor now, but...back when that well was producing 900 gallons/day (21.4 bbl/day), they were grossing AT LEAST $1,000/day. They EASILY could have saved up for a couple of months to buy a used pump jack and have it shipped over for say $30k. With the increased production from the pump jack they could've invested in enhanced recovery systems and then really started making money. I hate to say it, but most of their bad luck is self made.
That would need a populace that has the capacity to think ahead. But listen to him. „The government the government the government“. Yet they don’t even abide by the governments rules. Also all this stuff looks so haphazardly executed even with the tech they have on site. I could think of 20 ways to improve safety and environmental impact and I’m not even a petroleum engineer. Some peoples are destined to remain at the bottom, whether evil corpo capitalism exists or not.
They can not invest in new and better machinery because they wont have the permit to dig deeper. To do so they have to be a "real" company which will need a lot of permit and paper work, in which will cost another huge investment. Here, if we found natural resources, automatically, the land owned by state. The landowner will only got fair value of the land for compensation. Which will be low due to their remote location. They cant have a royalty from whatever extracted from that land.
Industrial oil companies can extract the oil more efficiently at lower environmental demage and refine the oil more efficiently into a higher quality product at lower pollution. In the end, there is simply more value added to Indonesia at lower environmental demage if it is done by an industrial company.
Nah, there are backyard oil wells that are squeaky clean conpared to these operations. They need gas masks ALL OF THE TIME when working with crude oil that close to their bodies.
These shallow oil mines are not economically efficient enough to justify using advanced equipment. If these operations were scaled up to an industrial level, the oil reserves would deplete rapidly. Moreover, these fields are scattered across many locations, making it logistically expensive to transport the crude oil to state-owned refineries.
There are so many problems with this report, it was obviously produced by a team with limited knowledge of both the oil & gas industry in general and Indonesia in particular. My favorite part is “according to some estimates, production from illegal wells outpaces the old wells by 10 bbl/d.” WHAT? What does that even mean? Each well? In aggregate? We are talking about tiny quantities here, who is doing these estimates? As soon as I heard “these wells are too narrow and far too deep for someone to crawl inside and fix problems” I knew I’d found an absolute winner. I should know, I crawl inside good wide American wells for a living.
The dutch left in 1949, claiming the land is polluted only because of them 75 years later while showing how they still ruin their own land until this day is a wild take
Where do you think all that pollution goes? It’s oil - the rain isn’t going to just wash it away. Oil floats on water. Oil is hard to get out of the environment in the quantities that industrial production produced. 10 years after the BP oil spill the gulf still looked worse off.
I think you missed his point, you cant complain and accuse somebody of doing something (polluting the ground) while doing the same thing, its hypocritical of them @@13579Winter
For those wondering why indonesia in such a mess when they had very rich natural resources was because we're not really an republic country, we're more like an kingdom where people worship the aristocrats. We spend a lot of money just to please and make the aristocrats richer. Yes, we had election and all. But the system make it so only those people who had money can actually be the candidate. And it's always friend of (....) Or family of (....) That's also the reason why we never had capable person in charge in the government Even the police act like a knight in medieval story when they didn't even bother to respond what the people reports but only listen to what the government command, which make the situation a lot worse
Indonesia is like every other country that was put under the iron grip of Islam by conquerors and colonists. You managed to shake the conquerors and colonists off eventually, but what you DIDNT shake off was Islam. The country is still controlled under the iron grip of Islam. No country under the iron grip of Islam has ever become rich or first-world. All countries under the iron grip of Islam end up the same way - all the wealth hemorrhaged into the pockets of those at the top, while ordinary people are just left poor and struggling to eat. For Indonesians to become richer and the wealth of the country to spread through all the population, the people need to rise up, collectively renounce Islam, and get a government in place that has a medium-term goal of eradicating Islam the same way they eradicated colonial control.
The amount of wasted energy for 55 gallons of crude oil a week is insane. 2,000 ft tap plumbed pumpjack. Efficient and effective way to extract now focus on harvesting as a lined pool that can be gravity fed.
I lived in Cepu for several years. These oil wells, part of Cepu Block, located in Wonocolo, Bojonegoro, East Java. When I was a little boy, My father who worked as an officer in Pertamina often brought the entire family there during the weekend. There are accidents and sometimes people killed there during the oil extraction process, including one that happened right before our last visit. Dangerous job with small amounts of money. Fyi, the old extraction "engine" was powered by several men pulling the sling cable.
7:00 Pauni doesn't have the machinery? No... Pauni doesn't have access to capital Government interferes in everything. Best wishes to all the good people in Indonesia.
In case you didn't watch the video they said Exxon Mobile controls the "government-owned" oil company. The government was more concerned with inviting western business interests to dine and dash in their country than helping their own citizens. And the US and oil companies are more of a "you give us or we take by force" type anyway.
the oil being government run is the only reason these folks still own their land and have jobs. you think it's better here in america where we grant public land to oil companies so they can not share a single cent and price gouge us every chance they get? at least these people get some small share in their land's natural resources whereas here it's simply given to the already-wealthy. where's my free land to drill on? probably consider yourself a libertarian or something ridiculous like that. laughable.
The amount of neglect and care is astonishing. They waste so much of their produce by just spilling it onto the ground, not making their process more efficient, .....
I wish they could get high efficiency distilling equipment, look how much vapor is lost out of the ends of the pipes. They must only recover 5% of the vapor going through those big pipes
You can make a high quality still with nothing but copper tube and fittings you can buy at any fleamarket in the world, just like the bootleggers did in the 1920's - 1930's. These people are stuck in poverty because they didn't reinvest their profits into capital projects back when it would've mattered.
@tetrabromobisphenol I agree, most 3rd world countries are 3rd world because their people are stupid and can't save and invest their money for more than a week.
The guy said " Saya tidak punya cita - cita pemerintah kok membantu, saya tidak pernah mengharapkan dan tidak pernah meminta" Meaning : " I don't have any dream that government will help, I never expect it, nor I wan't it" Wrong translation.
"Artisanal refinery" is such a funny phrase, like refining crude oil is an artistic endeavor and not just some poor schmuck sacrificing his health to make a few bucks to not end up starving to death.
They aren't refining anything. They are scooping oil out of the ground in the sloppiest way possible, needlessly spilling it everywhere. It's called producing oil although in this case that term seems to nice.
@reverendaljones45 scraping oil off the top is NOT going to get all the water out at all whatsoever. Refining means boiling the crude in a catalytic cracker to get diesel, naptha gas,for gasoline, propane,butane and a few other minor taxes etc etc with helium at the top.
@@crazyoilfieldmechanic3195 they produced diesel and gasoline for themselves using an underground oven to boil and refine the oil, watch the video again.
@@PositiveOnly-dm3rx "Artisanal" suggests artisanship which suggests some kind of refined skill. There's no one that would look at that operation and think it's run by skilled tradespeople.
@@PositiveOnly-dm3rx A product that is done through artisanal way means that the product was made through more traditional, less streamlined/automated process. Focusing much more on one's skill that results in a much higher quality product. The word "artisanal" is more in-line with craftsmen and professionals. That's why they are called artisans. There is nothing artisanal about this refinery. You can call this traditional, but it is in no way high quality. The refining process is extremely wasteful and very inefficient.
I’m from Assam, India, and I work for a state-owned oil company. Assam has a rich oil history-British explorers discovered oil here, and we have Asia’s first oil refinery, which is still operational. The British handed over the industry to India only when we were fully capable of managing it, resulting in a systematic and well-structured oil exploration and production process. In contrast, the Dutch handled oil exploration in Indonesia irresponsibly, without the same level of planning or care.
You should search the oil drilling that managed by pertamina, and you would see the differences. They are just individual oil drillers that don't obey rules, but because those are their lands, the government cannot really stop them for doing their works.
What are you talking about? First it was the Japanese that kicked the Dutch out in 1940, then the Indonesians in 1948. Next to that, pre-war oil production is incomparable to that of later periods. Indonesia has been a country for ages with a wealthy elite that skims of the top. Easy money.
A very good video thank you. It looks like Cepu, which is not too far from Madiun, where I have a small factory that produces crab traps. We have 3 workers from Cepu (started with 1); Yuni moved to Madiun to find work and now his sister and brother in law are employed too. Yuni is a fabricating genius and we are very proud to have him as an employee. Our workers make 3m- 3m IDR per month, we have a clean safe factory and we pay our workers' BPJS insurance. Yuni and his sister have bought a family plot in Madiun now and when the houses are built, their parents and children will all come to live in Madiun. Much cleaner than poor Cepu.😢
3M rupiah per month..how can you live with that much? so thats why you guys keep trespassing to Malaysia illegally....but why are you guys keep shit talking Malaysia then ?.. You attack their football supporters when they come to your country?..You guys are just bunch of overproud moron
It would be great to work with these men in the Canadian oilfield. They are hard workers just like us and just want to provide a good life for their family's. This is the best job in their area. This is why energy work is important.
She mentioned that the Dutch left in 1949 after Indonesian independence, which is correct. She should have added "in 1945" to make clear that this bit of history wasn't just a side note.
The more I hear about Indonesia the more I'd never ever visit: - Toxic oil extraction. - Toxic tofu produced over burning plastic. - Toxic Gold mining using mercury that poisons the air, crops, water and food chain top to bottom....
tbf indonesia is really freakin huge its like saying i dont want to visit spain, because you dont like how cold the wheater is in siberia. both are located in europe
it would be even more inhuman if they trapped thousand of workers in a class teaching them how to code in java, that would be one hell of a fever dream.
I've always figured that rather than burning the gas off (including sour gas), it should be collected and used to fire Boilers which in turn can create steam for Turbines to create Electricity. Otherwise it is Wasted and Pollutes our air.
An acquaintance of mine does that here in Canada. Two of them actually. They buy the flare gas, stockpile it, and then sell to the grid at inflated prices when demand peaks or when the wind doesn't blow. The one guy recently got whacked with an additional 7 million in carbon taxes this year over and above the ridiculous rates he has been paying. The "green" policies encourage bad decisions and waste.
You need gas pipeline infrastructure for that, which is very expensive. Gathering lines, processing plants, and transport systems from field to market. In TX, they’re pretty strict about flaring gas, and especially venting it unburned. Which has caused gas prices in WTX to be pretty low during the boom. Gas lines have been congested and they’ll sell it at next to nothing just to get it shipped so they can keep producing profitable oil, which is the system you’re describing. We have an excess of gas, which leads to cheap electricity and even building natural gas export terminals.
That’s not a low quality oil. Low quality oil is thick and full of paraffin. That oil is easy to refine that makes it valuable. Canada has nasty oil not easy to refine.
International organizations should demanda the indonesian government to extract that oil by themselves with proper technology and to sanitize those areas for future generations.
All they really have to do is abandon the area for 100 years and nature would take over. Oil is toxic yes, but it's natural part of the ecosystem and it will take care of itself eventually
Yes the wells pollute the area but you mentioned before the wells the oil would just bubble up to the surface. Wouldn’t that have ruined farming in this region? Or would it only bubble up in 1 spot? Feels like it probably would be a lot of spots, maybe not 500. Honestly didn’t know oil bubbles to the surface so sort of curious how you’d farm in a region like that
7:58 Actually, that’s a pretty fabulous meal. I grew up in Indo with that kind of food. Now that I live in VA, a bunch of cassava leaves from the Asian market costs $8 (just enough for one lunch). Add herby fried chicken, fish crackers, egg, and sambal (Indo/ Thai chili, shallot, garlic, tomatos, shrimp paste), and the whole meal easily costs me $25.
These big companies need to be made to pay the landowners a percentage of what they make from the land of the people. Oh who am I kidding. I'm from Scotland and as our oil is nearly all gone ,we the British taxpayers are giving money to the big oil companies to dismantle their oil rigs, while they made billions of pounds and continue to do so. WTF are we paying them anything when BP alone in the last quarter ( 13 weeks) made £18billion profit. Our politicians are just as corrupt as Colombia, Nigeria and all the government's around the world. Time for us to take back control. People say the world has got worse in the last 20 years. No it hasn't. It's just we can see what goes on all around us and everywhere due to the internet. And don't think for 1minute that the British and American governments would stop our access to it, except it would cause an uprising if they tried. They have the fact that we know mostly what's happening and that's why they started stories on line to try and confuse people into knowing what is real news and bullshit.
This is a private drilling with gray legality, the people took over what's left from the dutch, purely DIY. Their profit is entirely theirs. They are not part of Pertamina, but they'll sell crude oil to Pertamina to be refined or refined it themselves like on the video.
"Artisanal Oil": People poisoning themselves and the environment out of despair, while their government looks the other way --> The narrator brings it as if it were an Etsy advertisment. Indonesia gained independence in 1949, not in 1945 by the way.
Without oil we would not have anything we have today. When oil runs out or becomes too costly or inefficient to extract the world will become a very different place.
The entire situation really is quite sad. The workers are quite crafty and it is astonishing what they are able to do to extract the oil. However this isn´t healthy for them or their land. It´s so unsafe and inefficient too. Them wanting support by the government to drill more is redicolouse too. What they do isn´t good. Deeper wells would help them but it wouldn´t make it better. They by themselves are never going to get oil out of the ground in a modern way. There really ought to be a better solution.
but why not build a better container? Would not only better for the environment but theyve gotta loose a considerable amount of oil that just leeches back into the ground?
The reason why Indonesia imports oil is the same reason why America imports oil. This is because all crude oil is not the same, for example most crude oil is high in sulfur - sour crude. Sour crude is more common than sweet crude (low in sulfur) in the U.S. It is more expensive to refine sour crude into gasoline and diesel fuel therefore sweet crude is preferred and to meet demands means its imported. Sour crude oil can be toxic and corrosive, especially when it contains high levels of hydrogen sulfide (H2S). H2S is a breathing hazard and can give the oil a smell of rotting eggs.
Where are the environmentalists? Why aren't they helping this country to stop the pollution caused during extraction? Why aren't they helping countries like this in need of resources to achieve cleaner energy, reduce pollution from burning crude oil and help protect the aquifers and surface water sources? Oh wait.....that's because they'd actually have to go out and DO something, instead of sitting on their butts in their offices typing out demands. Environmentalists make demands and create unreasonable deadlines for one country, while ignoring the rest of the world. Newsflash: We all share the same air.
Do you want to donate or go help them? It seems like you don't actually care, and just want to dunk on "environmentalists", aka people who actually want to leave our children a nice world, for inconveniencing you slightly in your rich home country.
I consider myself an environmentalist but I largely agree with you. Most of these NGO's just like to bellyache but they offer no solutions. Their "awareness" campaigns pull in tons of money from clueless donors in the First World. And they have no intention of working towards a solution because that would be the end of their grift.
I always chuckle at some of the half baked political ideologies that lead third world countries to kick out the developed nations who actually have the knowhow to extract resources. Now what are you going to do? All you're going to do now is end up having to do business with the same countries, but this time via corporations lol Look at the history of any of these nations, and you'll see the quality of life was much better when they were under the direction (and protection) of developed nations.
Dude, are you really talking about Indonesian situation by looking at the sample of this video? It's like you look at the tiny area of Kensington, Philly and conclude that all of America is a drug addict society.. We are currently the 16th largest economy in the world and a member of the G20. We're more than capable of managing what we have, with or without partnership with western countries. This video is more of documentation about lowest class society daily life, not a full picture of the country.
@tirtaksara yes man but just remember that the gdp of Indonesia is still ONE FOURTH the gdp of only California with a population 7 times larger than California. It isn't about how much output you make, it's about how efficiently your making the output. Just like with the ridiculous way these people are producing oil.
For those commenting about why the government doesn't give them equipment and regulate them, you won't like the answer. The answer is that those wells are no longer economical. The only way the independent owners can make money is because they break all sorts of safety regulations and ignore environmental concerns. The sooner they stop, the better.
Obviously you never met with Indonesian poors. I paid my maid US$120 a month. She is very thankful. Her family plants coconuts, and after climbing hundreds of trees with no protection, no ropes, no nothing, they consider a $80 a month earning as a good month. To give some perspective, they sell coconuts for around IDR 500 per piece (3 cents USD). In cities, the price averages IDR 10,000 (60 cents). And in hotels a coconut sells for IDR 80,000 (USD 5). The biggest problem is logistics.
Great doc but what is the take home message? Indonesia has a corrupt gov? Indonesia isn't spending enough or any money modernising these wells? Indonesia couldn't care less about these people? Indonesia gov is exploiting these people? We should drive electric cars (ok this ones far fetched) Indonesian gov should close them down and pay these guys to ameliorate the land? We shouldn't spend one cent in Indonesia ? We should appreciate our comfortable lifestyles? We don't eat as well as poorer people do? Personally, I think the Indonesian gov should help these guys by financing them with modern drilling techniques and safety and allow them to own the oil they extract.
The Dutch taught then high tech ways to due it over a hundred years ago but their still doing the same ways? No one there has upgraded anything? 😕😞 Wow These people are destroying the environment doing things this outdated.
Do you have any solutions for this? These people, as you call them, can’t access better jobs or equipment because it’s so difficult to obtain. Most of them do this work for the sake of their children-so they can go to school and eventually get better jobs. But these people are hopeless; they earn only a small amount of money, barely enough for daily necessities or to pay their children’s school fees, which might be less than 20 bucks a month. I know oil and its products are expensive, yet this reality isn’t shown in the video. Besides dealing with state-owned companies, they also have to give a portion of their earnings to the police, military, and local authorities as bribes just to avoid getting caught.
12:10 "an entire days work fills one drum of deisel thats enough to fill a car three times" hell with californias wicked gas prices thats a helluva lot of $$$!!!
*checks notes* in conclusion… bro owns a good amount of land , has a wife and a daughter that attends school. remind me again why this video tries to garner sympathy and paint a “sad” picture of this wildly successful Indonesian man who has something that a majority of the American/European viewers DREAM of and will NEVER achieve in their entire lives?
youre comparing it based on what you learn in america. this dude owns the land because no one wants a shit fucked land that brought disaster to tens of thousands people except him, he has a wife because unlike americans, this dude touches grass and not stuck on his screen all year long. his daughter goes to school because the school is on a damn village and guess how cheap and low quality the school is if a sack of rice is not even a dollar? this dudes village doesnt have middle school for fuck's sake
Hard work used to reward you with a decent living. Now hard work only rewards you with more work and going poor and working until you die SAD but this is you so just be happy that's all you can do. A lot of work + Little pay = Zero incentive
@@mikemelancon1x sorry if am a bit rude but I do wish people would be more careful about their own health, especially if they live in countries where getting good medical care is hard, and getting it fast is even harder. I have a father who lost three fingers due to his stubbornness and claims PPE is not needed. Don't wish it on anyone.
It is incredible how, despite their fate, they smile at the camera. Good people!! Btw, you could use SI units (ºC instead of ºF), so everyone can understand. I have no idea how hot are those >500ºF.
the irony is that they have to sell to Pertamina, which owns most of the gas stations in Indonesia, yet can't provide one near enough for the workers to refuel their vehicles.
Mereka nggak jual ke pertamina bro.. daerah sy dekat dg situ, mereka berani krna investor sumuran mereka itu bukan orang kaleng²
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Yet it earns them more than growing, say corn, apparently. Not so much a "trap" as an opportunity. Imagine taking it away, what happens to those families dependent on that income.
Also pertamax can destroy your vehicle gas filter
@@chandragiriwangsa learn English no ones cares
An $11mil loss is not even a drop in the ocean for oil and gas companies. Don't make it sound like they are hurting a lot.
Yes, and that is passed to the consumer.
And now there is a moat of such thinking over the enterprise so it is harder to a newcomer to undercut and brake apart the monopoly.
Maybe they should invest in new wells and well tech. You know, maybe not leak half of the crude into the dirt? This is outrageous. The environment and the workers have no worth while the company makes billions.
It's a State owned company.
They’re not “making it sound like” that.
"loss" as if every drop of oil made in this country is owned by them😂
The problem with Indonesia is, the state claim ownership to all mines in its territory. Since the state companies (in the case of oil, Pertamina) become the only legal buyers, it become monopolies with all the power to treat the miners horribly.
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The video is dishonest. The words the man said in 14:25 should be translated to, "I don't hope, I don't ask, for government help."
The subtitle was instead said, "I have no hope, no aspiration. Will the government help?"
The correct translation is telling of his pride and calling for the government to go to hell.
The video translation on the other hand, is just socialism propaganda of the video makers.
Or a poor Google Translate process.
I think you're being a little quick to misread it based on your justified frustration with the whole situation. "Will the government help?" is a rhetorical question implying the futility of expecting any help from the government. It is no less disparaging of the government than you suggest it should be. It's not "socialist propaganda" dude. Chill
Lol, the socialist propaganda of Business Insider. 😂 Be serious.
Bump for your message so people know there's some propaganda here
Thank, you boulderbash.
79 years of independence and rich with natural resources... this country still couldn't prosper their people.
Obviously you haven’t been there for a while. Suggest you go again and look at the present economy
@@robertmcgowan3352most of Indonesia still poor the last time i visit the country 2 years ago
79 years run by lack of honest and competent authorities
@@robertmcgowan3352 at least 10 million Indonesians Gen Z are unemployed and not enrolled in any formal education or training.
Without the bogeyman of the European colonialists, the locals have no won to blame, but themselves, this leads those in power to become ever more totalitarian, to stop dissent, which also enables the tiny elite to be corrupt without limit.
This "bailer" method is literally how we extracted petroleum at the first wells in Pennsylvania in the 1850s.
Oil City, Pennsylvania yo be specific.
My families from there. So is my buddies mom, and they live in Florida of all places. It's a cool old little town. Pretty land
Why can't these people innovate or improve as the rest of the world has.
Money
Its hard to inovate when you only get about 200usd per month@@ZoomZoomMX3
@@ZoomZoomMX3 Fund Factors, or maybe negligence from the company themselves (?)
@@ZoomZoomMX3 Rotten culture/education system
"which is why workers bring lunch from home". Where else are they gonna go, McDonald's? Deli counter at Publix?
There're apps for your phone, which you can use to get lunch delivered to you. Or even cheaper, have a bloke roll up with a small kitchen mounted on his motorcycle, like a foodtruck with two wheels, within 10 minutes after pressing a button in one of those apps. Although these also make the rounds through the neighbourhoods during lunchtime. Larger food trucks set up shop during lunchtime near schools, officebuildings and factories.
😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂 p
theres this called "warteg" in indonesia, just look it up on google. you'll know
Indonesian food, the original spice producers, is way more delicious than American food
Wegmans has wonderful variety in *checks notes* Buhmphuk, I hear.
As an Indonesian, i already hear about them several years ago, a lot of locals praised them for actually handling oil by themselves instead of letting larger state owned corporations take it over, it is pretty clear however that their independentness makes their work unsafe and unregulated.
however, i can't help but seeing some contradictions in the narration here, the locals wants government's aid so they can explore more potential oil reserve in their land but on the other hand they are trapped? They definitely have no will to abandon these old oil fields in their land, even though they can quite easily do that by selling the land to Pertamina with quite a lucrative prices, the reason they still continue is because they know that these oils are giving them a steady and pretty high income earnings.
In my opinion, it is clear that the Government need to standardize their work, giving them more equipment, but it would be impossible without legalizing their work first, incorporating them into Pertamina is an option.
Agreed, but that wouldn't get pity and donations. Unfortunately that's what sells over here. Not logic but "look at the poor people, don't you feel bad for them". While pretty much ignoring what the actual problems are, and sell the rich vs poor story. And then make money off their hardship too 😂 these kind of "journalists" are just scummy
WHO CARES, DRILL AND SUCK.
@@wookie-zh7go yeah i dont think they are getting many donations from the US so dont worry. pretty easy to say that shit from your gaming chair.
Di Amerika ada yang namanya fracking isinya UMKM semua.. teknologinya sudah ada dari tahun 50an tapi ga pernah masuk ke Indonesia...
@@MANADOSTREET it's all down to the capital, state owned companies always have the capital to acquire the latest technologies in oil extraction and processing, if you are a bunch of guys that want to harnest black golds in your lawn however, it wouldn't be that easy
"Artisinal refinery" is an entirely new phrase to me, really. This small scale leftover extraction is ridiculously inefficient and extremely polluting. I understand the property owners desire to remain in charge, but it doesn't look like a beneficial strategy to them at all.
They say the same thing about child slaves in African cobalt mines.
"Artisinal miners"
It's a disgusting lie.
they make more money that way. its literally the only way to make ends meet for them. they wouldnt do it if it didnt benefit them more. it was extracted that way for hundreds of years but on a way bigger scale, the area is already ruined. Its fucked up, but i would do the exact same if i were them. theyve been put in a messed up position.
@@c6q3a24 i dont think comparing child slaves to these government contractors is a very great comparison.
@@ganjalfcreamcorn8438 They are nothing like government contractors. Oil reserves belong to the country, never individuals. The locals only own the land, but not the oil reserves. The locals are just forced to sell their oil to state-owned petroleum company. They are paid to provide a service to the government by extracting oil , but they are not government contractors, but more like freelancers
wildly privileged comment, these men are simply doing what they can. Only making $12 a week I can't imagine they have the cash to upgrade their operations.
I work in Canadian oil and gas and the exposure these guys are get is insane. Just bathing in that produced and oil, then eating with their hands. It still astounds me we still import from these countries. Canada's the 3rd biggest oil and gas reserves in the world. Our sites look as clean as surgical rooms compared to these wells.
ha ha ha poor people
Wdym, Indonesia is actually a net importer of oils since the last few decades. The domestic productions had declined and these are basically the crumbs that remains outside of the big oil wells owned by big corporations.
Canada probably exports more oil to Asia than vice versa
@@hanselsihotang Yes, this is obviously an outlier cherry picked case. I understand that. But its the concept. We still import huge amounts of oil from countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia. Their environmental standards wouldn't come close to Canada's. We now have super tight regulation on all aspects - exploration, wildlife, reclamation, disposal etc. I've worked in all aspects and environmental was always forefront. Sometimes debilitatingly so.
They don’t have any other choice. To give you an idea, the average income of people working in the city is $200 USD per month. Now imagine their income in rural areas. Their only alternative is farming, which doesn’t even earn them $60 USD per month. That’s why, if there’s a job that can provide at least more than that, they will choose it even if it’s riskier. Don’t compare it to Canada, where the HDI is far beyond theirs.
Indonesian don't export. Not enough to cover local use.
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Thanks for sharing that
The website for this book was only created about a month ago. Yet 2000 "real" people liked a comment about a random unrelated scamy sounding book.
@@crystalkincaid3274 A four month old account at that
Cool story bro, zero context, so Im going to assume you got like 10 plus different side effects after buying the book or reading the book. You may want to talk to your doctor about that.
Did some research on that book title. The results are dubious and sketchy at best.
“Which is why workers bring lunches from home”…….. what on earth is the difference between that and every single construction site in America lol
Americans!
yeah, why don't they just go to Applebee's for lunch?
I definitely can eat out everyday for lunch should I want for $50 or less.
The difference is they’re doing it out of necessity for how low wages are.
Every word of corporate legacy media reporting must fit a narrative. Always.
Have you been to every single construction site in America? I am in NYC and the area I work in has dozens of construction sites. I see construction workers going to small mom and pop restaurants and fast-food places just like regular office workers do.
I have been extremely grateful as an Indonesian to have been born into privilege. When I see and hear stories of my fellow countrymen and women struggle, it really makes my blood boil.
It's not easy to manage a country with over 200 million people scattered over thousands of kilometers, however, when I see the elite throwing lavish weddings for their pets, senators and the rich stealing from the people, meanwhile people like this that can barely afford school books, uniform, and food for their children. I have to wonder how the political elite sleep at night.
I am not a religious person, but I do hope hell exists for people who turn a blind eye to these situations, and I ask forgiveness and mercy for my soul when I die for not being able to help my fellow countrymen and women in need.
In your own little world you can brighten people's condition around you. It's a good thing you recognize your privilege. A lot of privileged people don't recognize that.
If you know you are privileged. Do something to help the poor is one way to pay back to society.
Same goes for you. Gimme some money. Credit card numbers will do. 🤕🤕🤕
I don't even live in Indonesia, and just seeing the first 10 minutes of that video might keep me up a few nights.
And when a person points out about the issues that are prevalent in Indonesia, some indonesians will accuse that person as "malaysian" who just want to criticize Indonesia 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
I can't believe how inefficent this process is. Dropping a bambu stick down a hole and lifting it back up. The liquit spilling all over the ground.
Even with limited resoutced you can make this so much safer and profitable
Wich is why they want the government to invest in new equipment I guess.
@@confuciuslola when he says "you" he means those who work there...
wood and stone aint too pricy indeed
With límited resources? How much is a metal Pipe down there? Should they decide to Buy a metal Pipe or a power plant instead of feeding their families?
@@gerardosalazar527 Had these folks invested even 20% of their revenues back into their business, they would be millionaires today. Refusing to invest in productivity-increasing tools is a sure way to lose your azz in business.
@@gerardosalazar527metal pipe might get stuck. Bamboo flexes
I know they're poor now, but...back when that well was producing 900 gallons/day (21.4 bbl/day), they were grossing AT LEAST $1,000/day. They EASILY could have saved up for a couple of months to buy a used pump jack and have it shipped over for say $30k. With the increased production from the pump jack they could've invested in enhanced recovery systems and then really started making money. I hate to say it, but most of their bad luck is self made.
HEY!! This is no place for facts and common sense!
I'm sure it probably didn't work that way. I can't imagine when the going was good, they were the ones benefitting.
That would need a populace that has the capacity to think ahead. But listen to him. „The government the government the government“. Yet they don’t even abide by the governments rules.
Also all this stuff looks so haphazardly executed even with the tech they have on site. I could think of 20 ways to improve safety and environmental impact and I’m not even a petroleum engineer.
Some peoples are destined to remain at the bottom, whether evil corpo capitalism exists or not.
They....they... they....😂😂
You don't know shit who owns the right to mine
They can not invest in new and better machinery because they wont have the permit to dig deeper. To do so they have to be a "real" company which will need a lot of permit and paper work, in which will cost another huge investment.
Here, if we found natural resources, automatically, the land owned by state. The landowner will only got fair value of the land for compensation. Which will be low due to their remote location. They cant have a royalty from whatever extracted from that land.
Industrial oil companies can extract the oil more efficiently at lower environmental demage and refine the oil more efficiently into a higher quality product at lower pollution. In the end, there is simply more value added to Indonesia at lower environmental demage if it is done by an industrial company.
Nah, there are backyard oil wells that are squeaky clean conpared to these operations. They need gas masks ALL OF THE TIME when working with crude oil that close to their bodies.
These shallow oil mines are not economically efficient enough to justify using advanced equipment. If these operations were scaled up to an industrial level, the oil reserves would deplete rapidly. Moreover, these fields are scattered across many locations, making it logistically expensive to transport the crude oil to state-owned refineries.
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@@Fallgreim473 ok, that is a legit argument.
@@Fallgreim473yeah, quite a lot of snall business owners have to be the ones operating because the major players can't be bothered.
There are so many problems with this report, it was obviously produced by a team with limited knowledge of both the oil & gas industry in general and Indonesia in particular.
My favorite part is “according to some estimates, production from illegal wells outpaces the old wells by 10 bbl/d.” WHAT? What does that even mean? Each well? In aggregate? We are talking about tiny quantities here, who is doing these estimates?
As soon as I heard “these wells are too narrow and far too deep for someone to crawl inside and fix problems” I knew I’d found an absolute winner. I should know, I crawl inside good wide American wells for a living.
The dutch left in 1949, claiming the land is polluted only because of them 75 years later while showing how they still ruin their own land until this day is a wild take
Where do you think all that pollution goes? It’s oil - the rain isn’t going to just wash it away. Oil floats on water. Oil is hard to get out of the environment in the quantities that industrial production produced.
10 years after the BP oil spill the gulf still looked worse off.
I think you missed his point, you cant complain and accuse somebody of doing something (polluting the ground) while doing the same thing, its hypocritical of them @@13579Winter
Cry more
You are and idiot
@@13579Winter
Why didn't the man in the video thank the Dutch for discovering the oil for them in the first place?
For those wondering why indonesia in such a mess when they had very rich natural resources was because we're not really an republic country, we're more like an kingdom where people worship the aristocrats. We spend a lot of money just to please and make the aristocrats richer.
Yes, we had election and all. But the system make it so only those people who had money can actually be the candidate. And it's always friend of (....) Or family of (....)
That's also the reason why we never had capable person in charge in the government
Even the police act like a knight in medieval story when they didn't even bother to respond what the people reports but only listen to what the government command, which make the situation a lot worse
Eat your rich
Indonesia is like every other country that was put under the iron grip of Islam by conquerors and colonists.
You managed to shake the conquerors and colonists off eventually, but what you DIDNT shake off was Islam. The country is still controlled under the iron grip of Islam. No country under the iron grip of Islam has ever become rich or first-world. All countries under the iron grip of Islam end up the same way - all the wealth hemorrhaged into the pockets of those at the top, while ordinary people are just left poor and struggling to eat. For Indonesians to become richer and the wealth of the country to spread through all the population, the people need to rise up, collectively renounce Islam, and get a government in place that has a medium-term goal of eradicating Islam the same way they eradicated colonial control.
The amount of wasted energy for 55 gallons of crude oil a week is insane. 2,000 ft tap plumbed pumpjack. Efficient and effective way to extract now focus on harvesting as a lined pool that can be gravity fed.
I lived in Cepu for several years. These oil wells, part of Cepu Block, located in Wonocolo, Bojonegoro, East Java. When I was a little boy, My father who worked as an officer in Pertamina often brought the entire family there during the weekend. There are accidents and sometimes people killed there during the oil extraction process, including one that happened right before our last visit. Dangerous job with small amounts of money. Fyi, the old extraction "engine" was powered by several men pulling the sling cable.
o Pauni dan bapak itu di Cepu ya
makasih infonya
The guy smoking on the motorcycle with all of the barrels of crude oil strapped to the back is probably safe…
They are poor but still waste money on cigarettes
@@infj5196Dirt cheap over there
@@infj5196I get the joke but the poor often use substances to cope with stress.
@@infj5196 its indonesian bro..they literally think Cig is medicine...overproud stupid bunch
@@infj5196I know your point but in their minds that's one of their personal luxuries.
7:00 Pauni doesn't have the machinery?
No... Pauni doesn't have access to capital
Government interferes in everything.
Best wishes to all the good people in Indonesia.
In case you didn't watch the video they said Exxon Mobile controls the "government-owned" oil company. The government was more concerned with inviting western business interests to dine and dash in their country than helping their own citizens. And the US and oil companies are more of a "you give us or we take by force" type anyway.
The government stealing the mineral rights is the root of the problem. You can't raise money for capital improvement under this situation.
Only big players win. He doesn't have any capital or connections to do. So the government doesn't care.
@@michaeld4861 As I said, governments interference
You believe there is such a thing as a " decent" government that is not controlled by someone
the oil being government run is the only reason these folks still own their land and have jobs. you think it's better here in america where we grant public land to oil companies so they can not share a single cent and price gouge us every chance they get? at least these people get some small share in their land's natural resources whereas here it's simply given to the already-wealthy. where's my free land to drill on? probably consider yourself a libertarian or something ridiculous like that. laughable.
I'm trapped in java too. I've tried to move to C# but its just not the same
Learn C++ or Rust. It's not too late. The halcyon days of C# are past.
Why would you trap yourself in the Microsoft world?
java to c#, you're spiralled down into poverty trap
learn financial trading, do it right now
Media:*anything about Java Island
Programmers: It's showtime
Have ever getting mauled by Phyton?
The amount of neglect and care is astonishing. They waste so much of their produce by just spilling it onto the ground, not making their process more efficient, .....
Huh as indonesian all i can say is some translation and what the local are saying are different. Just keep that in mind
Thanks for clarifying absolutely nothing
ok cool thanks for the heads up lol
I wish they could get high efficiency distilling equipment, look how much vapor is lost out of the ends of the pipes. They must only recover 5% of the vapor going through those big pipes
You can make a high quality still with nothing but copper tube and fittings you can buy at any fleamarket in the world, just like the bootleggers did in the 1920's - 1930's. These people are stuck in poverty because they didn't reinvest their profits into capital projects back when it would've mattered.
@@tetrabromobisphenol Truth.
@tetrabromobisphenol I agree, most 3rd world countries are 3rd world because their people are stupid and can't save and invest their money for more than a week.
14:08 my man’s smoking a ciggi while carrying gallons off crude 😂
Yeah it's crude
bro's got style
crude isn't as flammable as the refined products
The guy said " Saya tidak punya cita - cita pemerintah kok membantu, saya tidak pernah mengharapkan dan tidak pernah meminta" Meaning : " I don't have any dream that government will help, I never expect it, nor I wan't it"
Wrong translation.
So they translated into the complete opposite of what he actually said. Thats impressive.
Apparently business insider thinks people will gobble up all sorts of bull droppings as long as you say it in a concerned and compassionate tone.
"Royal Dutch," the colonial company that started this, is now known as Shell
Yes, and they recently moved their HQ to the UK when government in the netherlands decided they should start paying tax
"Artisanal refinery" is such a funny phrase, like refining crude oil is an artistic endeavor and not just some poor schmuck sacrificing his health to make a few bucks to not end up starving to death.
They aren't refining anything. They are scooping oil out of the ground in the sloppiest way possible, needlessly spilling it everywhere. It's called producing oil although in this case that term seems to nice.
@@crazyoilfieldmechanic3195 the video literally showed them refining the crude oil at the 11 minute+ mark.
@reverendaljones45 scraping oil off the top is NOT going to get all the water out at all whatsoever.
Refining means boiling the crude in a catalytic cracker to get diesel, naptha gas,for gasoline, propane,butane and a few other minor taxes etc etc with helium at the top.
@@crazyoilfieldmechanic3195 they produced diesel and gasoline for themselves using an underground oven to boil and refine the oil, watch the video again.
“Artisanal refinery”. Ohhhhhkay. You’ve been in Brooklyn too long BI
go pick up a dictionary buddy...
@@PositiveOnly-dm3rx "Artisanal" suggests artisanship which suggests some kind of refined skill. There's no one that would look at that operation and think it's run by skilled tradespeople.
@@PositiveOnly-dm3rx A product that is done through artisanal way means that the product was made through more traditional, less streamlined/automated process. Focusing much more on one's skill that results in a much higher quality product. The word "artisanal" is more in-line with craftsmen and professionals. That's why they are called artisans.
There is nothing artisanal about this refinery. You can call this traditional, but it is in no way high quality. The refining process is extremely wasteful and very inefficient.
I’m from Assam, India, and I work for a state-owned oil company. Assam has a rich oil history-British explorers discovered oil here, and we have Asia’s first oil refinery, which is still operational. The British handed over the industry to India only when we were fully capable of managing it, resulting in a systematic and well-structured oil exploration and production process. In contrast, the Dutch handled oil exploration in Indonesia irresponsibly, without the same level of planning or care.
You should search the oil drilling that managed by pertamina, and you would see the differences. They are just individual oil drillers that don't obey rules, but because those are their lands, the government cannot really stop them for doing their works.
deepan, your unknowledge of history is impressive.
What are you talking about? First it was the Japanese that kicked the Dutch out in 1940, then the Indonesians in 1948. Next to that, pre-war oil production is incomparable to that of later periods. Indonesia has been a country for ages with a wealthy elite that skims of the top. Easy money.
A very good video thank you. It looks like Cepu, which is not too far from Madiun, where I have a small factory that produces crab traps. We have 3 workers from Cepu (started with 1); Yuni moved to Madiun to find work and now his sister and brother in law are employed too. Yuni is a fabricating genius and we are very proud to have him as an employee. Our workers make 3m- 3m IDR per month, we have a clean safe factory and we pay our workers' BPJS insurance. Yuni and his sister have bought a family plot in Madiun now and when the houses are built, their parents and children will all come to live in Madiun. Much cleaner than poor Cepu.😢
3M rupiah per month..how can you live with that much? so thats why you guys keep trespassing to Malaysia illegally....but why are you guys keep shit talking Malaysia then ?.. You attack their football supporters when they come to your country?..You guys are just bunch of overproud moron
@@kubotite9168 3m is well above Madiun minimum wage and still enough for the regional living cost.
It would be great to work with these men in the Canadian oilfield. They are hard workers just like us and just want to provide a good life for their family's.
This is the best job in their area. This is why energy work is important.
Ah yes, bringing a luch from home, as opposed to hunting a deer on the job site.
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I marvel at how clean that old guys clothes are who works at the oil refinery all the time.
yeah he isn't exactly looking like he's working his ass off either
Trapped in a dead end job. Sounds familiar.
lol they would kill to be in america. im not sure if any of us can really relate
@@ganjalfcreamcorn8438 You know there are people who work full time and are homeless in america right?
@@ganjalfcreamcorn8438 I will never relate, because you can escape this shithole if you really wanted to. 12$ a week for this? Really?
Indonesia's independence declaration was 1945. 1949 was the dutch official recognition.
She mentioned that the Dutch left in 1949 after Indonesian independence, which is correct. She should have added "in 1945" to make clear that this bit of history wasn't just a side note.
13:23 This is wrong, if they own the land it should be their oil. One of the many many things wrong with our world today.
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The more I hear about Indonesia the more I'd never ever visit:
- Toxic oil extraction.
- Toxic tofu produced over burning plastic.
- Toxic Gold mining using mercury that poisons the air, crops, water and food chain top to bottom....
Mate, I'd reckon the friggin' Planet is Fk'd... 😂👍
@mickgatz214 HAHA truth right there, mate😂
@@natashabusono4550 im also Australian
@@ganjalfcreamcorn8438 Cool👏🏾
tbf indonesia is really freakin huge
its like saying i dont want to visit spain, because you dont like how cold the wheater is in siberia. both are located in europe
"Artisanal oil refinery" is not a term I ever thought I would encounter. Sounds like a bad idea.
it would be even more inhuman if they trapped thousand of workers in a class teaching them how to code in java, that would be one hell of a fever dream.
I find it fascinating that after taking the oil straight from the ground they can refine it good enough to power a car (using simple methods)
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'We are forced to do this - otherwise our families suffer.'
HOW IS THAT DIFFERENT TO ANY OTHER FAMILY PROVIDERS?
I've always figured that rather than burning the gas off (including sour gas), it should be collected and used to fire Boilers which in turn can create steam for Turbines to create Electricity. Otherwise it is Wasted and Pollutes our air.
Lmao, uhhhh you would need electricity generating turbines first…. Hahahaha
An acquaintance of mine does that here in Canada. Two of them actually. They buy the flare gas, stockpile it, and then sell to the grid at inflated prices when demand peaks or when the wind doesn't blow. The one guy recently got whacked with an additional 7 million in carbon taxes this year over and above the ridiculous rates he has been paying. The "green" policies encourage bad decisions and waste.
@@sforza209 erm akshually....
You need gas pipeline infrastructure for that, which is very expensive. Gathering lines, processing plants, and transport systems from field to market.
In TX, they’re pretty strict about flaring gas, and especially venting it unburned. Which has caused gas prices in WTX to be pretty low during the boom. Gas lines have been congested and they’ll sell it at next to nothing just to get it shipped so they can keep producing profitable oil, which is the system you’re describing. We have an excess of gas, which leads to cheap electricity and even building natural gas export terminals.
Hearing that guy start that truck without letting the glow plugs get hot is painful.
I used to work for a Massey Ferguson assembly factory. We only used glow plugs in winter.
That’s not a low quality oil. Low quality oil is thick and full of paraffin. That oil is easy to refine that makes it valuable. Canada has nasty oil not easy to refine.
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These guys are the OG Primitive Technology
International organizations should demanda the indonesian government to extract that oil by themselves with proper technology and to sanitize those areas for future generations.
Unfortunately, Indonesia is a democratic country, maybe you can do it if you follow a communist system.
All they really have to do is abandon the area for 100 years and nature would take over. Oil is toxic yes, but it's natural part of the ecosystem and it will take care of itself eventually
It's not profitable for big companies. The only reason why they won't do it. It has be to gargantuan operation for companies to make profit.
@@laius6047lmao. Every rank in government are corrupt
That would only meant for Pertamina to seize their soul which they didn't want to.
Here is another example of people that can’t build anything beyond hand to mouth.
God bless this hard working man and his family 🙏
Yes the wells pollute the area but you mentioned before the wells the oil would just bubble up to the surface. Wouldn’t that have ruined farming in this region? Or would it only bubble up in 1 spot? Feels like it probably would be a lot of spots, maybe not 500. Honestly didn’t know oil bubbles to the surface so sort of curious how you’d farm in a region like that
7:58 Actually, that’s a pretty fabulous meal. I grew up in Indo with that kind of food. Now that I live in VA, a bunch of cassava leaves from the Asian market costs $8 (just enough for one lunch). Add herby fried chicken, fish crackers, egg, and sambal (Indo/ Thai chili, shallot, garlic, tomatos, shrimp paste), and the whole meal easily costs me $25.
In indonesia you get just $1 for that fried chicken fish crackers and sambal with cassa leave and rice one portion
Go to warteg, One plate of food is less than $2
What's your point though? Food grown locally is always going to be cheaper.
@@aronquemarr7434seriously, I can’t believe people are so god damn dense.
That's crazy after all these years they couldn't fab together a primitive pump.
That primitive pump would have to fit down the well. down like 1000 feet and make at least 400 psi just to get a trickle
damn bro, if only he knew how to smelt iron
I have a headache watching this. How are they still alive and well?
Crude oil isn't that pungy the processed ones Gasoline and Diesel are toxic to lungs
Thanks Mobile, for taking everything again.
He says it all through a benevolent smile. i cry
These big companies need to be made to pay the landowners a percentage of what they make from the land of the people. Oh who am I kidding. I'm from Scotland and as our oil is nearly all gone ,we the British taxpayers are giving money to the big oil companies to dismantle their oil rigs, while they made billions of pounds and continue to do so. WTF are we paying them anything when BP alone in the last quarter ( 13 weeks) made £18billion profit. Our politicians are just as corrupt as Colombia, Nigeria and all the government's around the world. Time for us to take back control. People say the world has got worse in the last 20 years. No it hasn't. It's just we can see what goes on all around us and everywhere due to the internet. And don't think for 1minute that the British and American governments would stop our access to it, except it would cause an uprising if they tried. They have the fact that we know mostly what's happening and that's why they started stories on line to try and confuse people into knowing what is real news and bullshit.
peasants dream of courage as fish dream of flying
This is a private drilling with gray legality, the people took over what's left from the dutch, purely DIY. Their profit is entirely theirs. They are not part of Pertamina, but they'll sell crude oil to Pertamina to be refined or refined it themselves like on the video.
""We've ruined the land.... The government should fix that"" erm, nope that's on you!
"Everything's sh*t and we're f*cked."
*smiles
According to other comments, this guy's sentence has been translated incorrectly.
"Artisanal Oil": People poisoning themselves and the environment out of despair, while their government looks the other way --> The narrator brings it as if it were an Etsy advertisment.
Indonesia gained independence in 1949, not in 1945 by the way.
This should be titled land polluters!
Without oil we would not have anything we have today. When oil runs out or becomes too costly or inefficient to extract the world will become a very different place.
not really..country will just shift to electric vehicle and nuclear power plant..
@ you don’t know anything.
The entire situation really is quite sad. The workers are quite crafty and it is astonishing what they are able to do to extract the oil. However this isn´t healthy for them or their land. It´s so unsafe and inefficient too. Them wanting support by the government to drill more is redicolouse too. What they do isn´t good. Deeper wells would help them but it wouldn´t make it better. They by themselves are never going to get oil out of the ground in a modern way.
There really ought to be a better solution.
Must remember to put out recycling bin .
but why not build a better container? Would not only better for the environment but theyve gotta loose a considerable amount of oil that just leeches back into the ground?
The reason why Indonesia imports oil is the same reason why America imports oil. This is because all crude oil is not the same, for example most crude oil is high in sulfur - sour crude. Sour crude is more common than sweet crude (low in sulfur) in the U.S. It is more expensive to refine sour crude into gasoline and diesel fuel therefore sweet crude is preferred and to meet demands means its imported. Sour crude oil can be toxic and corrosive, especially when it contains high levels of hydrogen sulfide (H2S). H2S is a breathing hazard and can give the oil a smell of rotting eggs.
Where are the environmentalists? Why aren't they helping this country to stop the pollution caused during extraction? Why aren't they helping countries like this in need of resources to achieve cleaner energy, reduce pollution from burning crude oil and help protect the aquifers and surface water sources?
Oh wait.....that's because they'd actually have to go out and DO something, instead of sitting on their butts in their offices typing out demands.
Environmentalists make demands and create unreasonable deadlines for one country, while ignoring the rest of the world.
Newsflash: We all share the same air.
No middle class wealth to transfer by forcing everyone to buy "green"
Do you want to donate or go help them?
It seems like you don't actually care, and just want to dunk on "environmentalists", aka people who actually want to leave our children a nice world, for inconveniencing you slightly in your rich home country.
I consider myself an environmentalist but I largely agree with you. Most of these NGO's just like to bellyache but they offer no solutions. Their "awareness" campaigns pull in tons of money from clueless donors in the First World. And they have no intention of working towards a solution because that would be the end of their grift.
@@ossumpossum5490. USA is #1 in philanthropy and NFP/volunteer groups that travel the world helping those in need.
Yeah, we’re terrible. 😂😂😂😂
This is illegal operations
It would be more environmentally friendly and profitable if they refined cocoa leaves.
lol!
They would find a way to make a mess !
haha thats somthing america could get on board with
South East Asia region has something similar call "Kratom" .
"coca" not "cocoa" you mean
BUY A PUMP AND SOME HOSE DUDE WTF
Good movie, thanks. High quality Indonesian oil
I came to this broadcast just to see people from outside Indonesia comment and give their opinions about our country.
I hope you hate Indonesia otherwise the comments won't be very nice to read.
This NPR-style, over-the-top compassionate narration is so irritating.
The lisp is something else..
I always chuckle at some of the half baked political ideologies that lead third world countries to kick out the developed nations who actually have the knowhow to extract resources. Now what are you going to do? All you're going to do now is end up having to do business with the same countries, but this time via corporations lol Look at the history of any of these nations, and you'll see the quality of life was much better when they were under the direction (and protection) of developed nations.
Dude, are you really talking about Indonesian situation by looking at the sample of this video? It's like you look at the tiny area of Kensington, Philly and conclude that all of America is a drug addict society.. We are currently the 16th largest economy in the world and a member of the G20. We're more than capable of managing what we have, with or without partnership with western countries. This video is more of documentation about lowest class society daily life, not a full picture of the country.
@tirtaksara yes man but just remember that the gdp of Indonesia is still ONE FOURTH the gdp of only California with a population 7 times larger than California. It isn't about how much output you make, it's about how efficiently your making the output. Just like with the ridiculous way these people are producing oil.
@@tirtaksara "We're more than capable of managing what we have"
Clearly not though.
@@crazyoilfieldmechanic3195our food is 10x less expensive than CA or 20x less than LA.
For those commenting about why the government doesn't give them equipment and regulate them, you won't like the answer. The answer is that those wells are no longer economical. The only way the independent owners can make money is because they break all sorts of safety regulations and ignore environmental concerns. The sooner they stop, the better.
when He said, "I HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE". with smile of his face. that's really an honest expression, if you know how Javanese people culture.
Gosh, could somebody please tell them to get into the pistachio business before they ruin their land for pennies?
Those oil wells stuck in the past is defining their future
It seems that they need to be unburdened by what has been.
@harmonk8012 "to have more confidence in thier passage of time"
You mean refining their future? /j
@@harmonk8012 bruh.
It's crazy the work people will do for such meager wages, so physically taxing on the body and their health..
They keep saying it's for their families and need the money
The fact that they do it means it pays more more than subsistence farming.
Obviously you never met with Indonesian poors. I paid my maid US$120 a month. She is very thankful. Her family plants coconuts, and after climbing hundreds of trees with no protection, no ropes, no nothing, they consider a $80 a month earning as a good month. To give some perspective, they sell coconuts for around IDR 500 per piece (3 cents USD). In cities, the price averages IDR 10,000 (60 cents). And in hotels a coconut sells for IDR 80,000 (USD 5). The biggest problem is logistics.
@@gregorymalchuk272 or maybe he has to learn farming for like half a year and his family cant go that long without food, hm?
If the Dutch were still in charge there, everything would have looked better
And not just a little bit! Holy moly it would be a transformation from a third world country to a first world country.
And yet; He manages a perfect, welcoming smile! Stay thirsty, my friend!
Great doc but what is the take home message? Indonesia has a corrupt gov? Indonesia isn't spending enough or any money modernising these wells? Indonesia couldn't care less about these people? Indonesia gov is exploiting these people? We should drive electric cars (ok this ones far fetched) Indonesian gov should close them down and pay these guys to ameliorate the land? We shouldn't spend one cent in Indonesia ? We should appreciate our comfortable lifestyles?
We don't eat as well as poorer people do? Personally, I think the Indonesian gov should help these guys by financing them with modern drilling techniques and safety and allow them to own the oil they extract.
Just...stop...doing it.... There are more efficient ways to do this. These people are being very foolish because they're extremely ignorant...
nice conclusion bro. if this dude watches youtube everyday he can too realize his method is very inefficient.
The Dutch taught then high tech ways to due it over a hundred years ago but their still doing the same ways?
No one there has upgraded anything?
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Wow
These people are destroying the environment doing things this outdated.
13:50 They can, and have many mining scholars but most choose to work at Pertamina rather than this local run business.
Do you have any solutions for this? These people, as you call them, can’t access better jobs or equipment because it’s so difficult to obtain. Most of them do this work for the sake of their children-so they can go to school and eventually get better jobs. But these people are hopeless; they earn only a small amount of money, barely enough for daily necessities or to pay their children’s school fees, which might be less than 20 bucks a month.
I know oil and its products are expensive, yet this reality isn’t shown in the video. Besides dealing with state-owned companies, they also have to give a portion of their earnings to the police, military, and local authorities as bribes just to avoid getting caught.
What a Life in another Country
Yet Americans complain about Taxes
I say We NEED TO take back Our Country
Dude never stopped smiling the entire time even when talking about his hardships.
12:10 "an entire days work fills one drum of deisel thats enough to fill a car three times" hell with californias wicked gas prices thats a helluva lot of $$$!!!
*checks notes*
in conclusion… bro owns a good amount of land , has a wife and a daughter that attends school.
remind me again why this video tries to garner sympathy and paint a “sad” picture of this wildly successful Indonesian man who has something that a majority of the American/European viewers DREAM of and will NEVER achieve in their entire lives?
youre comparing it based on what you learn in america. this dude owns the land because no one wants a shit fucked land that brought disaster to tens of thousands people except him, he has a wife because unlike americans, this dude touches grass and not stuck on his screen all year long. his daughter goes to school because the school is on a damn village and guess how cheap and low quality the school is if a sack of rice is not even a dollar? this dudes village doesnt have middle school for fuck's sake
God this channel is just a whitewash corporate simp fest.
This isn't even the shadiest thing they do probably 10x healthier than ship breaking Or drinking from basically any river
Hard work used to reward you with a decent living. Now hard work only rewards you with more work and going poor and working until you die SAD but this is you so just be happy that's all you can do. A lot of work + Little pay = Zero incentive
Artisanal oil refinery is a phrase I never thought I’d hear…
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Prayer is mandatory, better working conditions and PPE, not so much.
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@@mikemelancon1x sorry if am a bit rude but I do wish people would be more careful about their own health, especially if they live in countries where getting good medical care is hard, and getting it fast is even harder. I have a father who lost three fingers due to his stubbornness and claims PPE is not needed. Don't wish it on anyone.
Its amazing how 16 minutes felt like 1 hr she spoke so slowly.......
What a dump
It is incredible how, despite their fate, they smile at the camera. Good people!!
Btw, you could use SI units (ºC instead of ºF), so everyone can understand. I have no idea how hot are those >500ºF.
Is this Texas wonocolo? If yes then I've been there before. And their HSE is at the worst level 😅