According to political scientist Edward Aspinall, there are more billionaires in Indonesia than in China or India. As he writes in a recent article on the financial inequality and political culture of the country, “This growing concentration of wealth is part of a broad global trend, but one factor accelerating it in Indonesia was the commodity boom that occurred during the 2000s, when prices and production of key commodities like coal and palm oil rose sharply.”⁵ Indeed, with over ten million hectares of oil palm plantations, Indonesia is the world’s largest producer of crude palm oil and its greatest international exporter. This vector of accumulation has no end is in sight, as current estimates predict that the demand for palm oil will double in the next decade, and eventually even triple in the second half of this century.