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Even during a good year, the sourcing of Macassar Ebony is both problemmatic and perilous, more so with each passing year... Ever-shrinking tree sizes, distance from even primitive transportation, naturally-low density of the species, extremely difficult mountainous terrain, unreliability of supply, reduced trustworthiness of suppliers, involvement of innumerable government officials, ever-more onerous documents for both Export and Import, escalating transportation/shipping costs, unstable political climate - all contribute to the degree of difficulty of sourcing Macassar Ebony... Not even mentioned above in the ever-lengthening list of liabilities is the current danger to one's personal safety. Cross-cultural differences, compounded by religious intolerance, have contributed to violence and brutality, often in the extreme, in some of the very best areas and islands for Macassar Ebony.