Halmahera - Kao

North Maluku, Indonesia

Fuji S2 digital, Nikon 12-24

I believe this is the port facility for a new gold mine built by Australian company in Kao. Who would control revenues from this mine became one of the issues in the violence in 1999-2000.

Photographs taken through the window of a moving car are never ideal, but there was no time to stop. I had to make the last boat back from Sidangoli to Ternate before dusk, and we were late. The driver who had promised to take us back to Sidangoli never showed up, so I had to flag down another vehicle on the road.