Blak Bisnis

Yarn | A Story Podcast

[A true crime documentary]

Modern piracy and the hijacking of the Petro Ranger. - You probably don’t think of pirates as wearing expensive suits and working in high rise office buildings. In the 90’s the biggest pirates of South East Asia were impossible to tell apart from high powered business people. It was hard to tell them apart because they could be both. This is the true story of one of the most sophisticated pirate syndicates in South East Asia and its mythic leader Mister Wong.

The syndicate was run like a business. They had assets, employees, customers, lawyers and accountants but they operated outside the law and in secret with little regard for human life. Locals called their activity Blak Bisnis…

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Written by John Roche.

Music score and mixing by Drembot.

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Full transcript here: https://medium.com/@mrjohnroche_42475/yarn-15-blak-bisnis-682db21ef576

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Bibliography:

Books
The Brutal Seas: Organised Crime at Work. Stewart, Douglas. Piracy, Maritime Terrorism and Securing the Malacca Straits (Iias/Iseas Series on Maritime Issues and Piracy in Asia). Ong-Webb, Graham Gerard. Piracy in Southeast Asia (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History). Ted Biggs. Petro-pirates: The Hijacking of the Petro Ranger. Peter Corris with Ken Blyth. Pirates in Paradise: A Modern History of Southeast Asia’s Maritime Marauders. Stefan Eklöf.

Articles
Dead men tell no tales www.economist.com Mr Wong: Pirate or law-abiding citizen www.andreasharsono.net The Most Dangerous Waters in the World time.com Pirates' Strategies and Countermeasures in the South China Sea www.theepochtimes.com

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