Introducing the New OPEC Member That Likes Lower Oil Prices

  • Indonesia rejoins group 7 years after suspending membership
  • Move may reflect `marginalization' of OPEC, Citigroup says

A motorcycle owner is buying subsidized gasoline in Jakarta. Indonesia will re-join the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries as its 13th member next month, almost seven years after suspending its membership.

Photographer: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg
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After defending the interests of oil-exporting nations for five decades, OPEC has made a surprising choice with its newest member: a country that consumes about twice as much crude as it pumps.

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