Balikpapan

No one's ever heard of it, have they? Well, it's the new capital of Indonesia's location.

As I said, it's in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, between Balikpapan and Samarinda.

Never heard of them.

Nusantara is an Indonesian term referring to the Indonesian archipelago.

I've played through most of the narrative scenarios in that book.

It doesn't cover Borneo, which is a shame because obviously there are campaigns like, for example, Balikpapan in Borneo, where...

Balikpapan is a contested beach assault into a town.

And it's a heavily, heavily, heavily fortified position.

Again, one of my other close friends has family ties to that campaign and has researched it extensively.

And you're generally actually, unless you're doing the 45 campaign, you shouldn't actually be using Matilda Frogs.

They were only very much a late innovation and they were mainly used in Borneo.

So that campaign I talked about, Balikpapan, I mean, that's a play case where the Frogs were used, but you should be sticking to the normal either Matildas with the anti-tank gun or the CS Matildas with the light howitzer.

And ran a couple of coal mining operations, you know, up in Indonesia again.

And then there was this one that I was driving back down to the head office in Balikpapan.

It's like a sort of main highway and I was driving myself and I came around a bend and there was a motorbike on my side of the road, on the wrong side of the road.

And I swerved and it sort of, I didn't hit him, but he glanced and he ran down the car and ripped the wing mirror off and rolled.

And I had his home phone number.

And he lived in Indonesia.

He lived in Balikpapan.

And I had his home phone number.

By one AM on March eighteenth, de Guzman arrived in Jakarta.

By four AM, he was on a domestic flight to Balikpapan, a port city in East Kalimantan.

There, he was met by his colleague, Rudy Vega, a fellow member of the Filipino core exploration team.

The two men checked into a hotel to get their facts straight before de Guzman's high-stakes meeting with Dave Potter, Freeport's head of due diligence.