Slideshow: Asphalt aspirations
Road building is difficult wherever you are. In Indonesia there are even more challenges.
Road building is difficult wherever you are. In Indonesia there are even more challenges.
Asphalt. It’s not something I’ve ever given much thought to, except to wish there were more of it under the wheels of my car (Kenya) or motorbike (Indonesia). But now I’m in Buton, the island in Southeast Sulawesi which is one of the world’s largest suppliers of the stuff of which dream highways are made, so I thought I’d go and see an asphalt mine…