Industry: A necessary evil?


Super power: Suralaya is one of the largest power plant complexes in Indonesia. The new and the old plants combined have a capacity to produce 4025-megawatts. — Photos: Team Ceritalah

INDUSTRY can be both magnificent and awful.

While it can transform lives, create jobs and churn out vital products, we are becoming increasingly aware of the pollution and destruction that it leaves in its wake. Moreover, technological and digital innovation could easily decimate what we once considered to be immutable and enduring industries.

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