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        "id": 1129336,
        "msgid": "shameful-situation-1447899208",
        "date": "2005-09-10 00:00:00",
        "title": "Shameful situation ",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Shameful situation Isn't it a shame, that the Indonesian tempeh industry is affected by the dollar. Why do the soya beans have to be imported? Can Indonesian farmers not grow soya beans themselves? It should be an embarrassment for the Minister of Agriculture that the local farmers do not have the means or know how to grow prime quality basic food we all eat.",
        "content": "<p>Shameful situation<\/p>\n<p>Isn't it a shame, that the Indonesian tempeh industry is <br>\naffected by the dollar. Why do the soya beans have to be <br>\nimported? Can Indonesian farmers not grow soya beans themselves? <br>\nIt should be an embarrassment for the Minister of Agriculture <br>\nthat the local farmers do not have the means or know how to grow <br>\nprime quality basic food we all eat.<\/p>\n<p>It galls me when I see that a small bunch of wilted water <br>\nspinach at the supermarket costs Rp 1,400 and a bunch of local <br>\nbananas Rp 8,000, scrawny local carrots Rp 3,450 per kilogram, <br>\nwhile nice and fresh looking imported carrots sell in comparison <br>\nfor only Rp 3,900 per kg, imported delicious apples only cost Rp <br>\n3,900 per kg. Indonesian apples? Forget it! Even nice looking <br>\npapayas are imported, while they grow here but look unappetizing, <br>\ngood for bird feed only!<\/p>\n<p>Something is very wrong with the mentality of the officials <br>\nand the system here. In other countries farmers are subsidized <br>\nand get free seminars to improve their know-how and skills; here <br>\nit is gasoline that is subsidized, which actually comes from the <br>\nvery own national soil but has to be refined in another country <br>\nand then be re-imported.<\/p>\n<p>Why does Indonesia not have its own refinery for this? All <br>\nthese are sad jokes! And now it is allowed to export raw rattan, <br>\ndestroying the livelihoods of 60 percent of the people working <br>\nfor the Cirebon rattan furniture industries. This is an utter <br>\ndisregard of basic economic thinking. No country will export raw <br>\nmaterials for \"small change\", when it can produce finished goods <br>\nfrom it and thus give work and food to its people and get higher <br>\nrevenues from taxes on the finished products.<\/p>\n<p>Next we will import rattan furniture from China, made from our <br>\nown rattan. Where are the officials and policymakers of this <br>\ncountry who have some insight and foresight about causes and <br>\neffects and who can think a little further than to their next <br>\n\"project\" from which to siphon their percentage in profits?<\/p>\n<p>They should work together for the benefit of the country and <br>\nthe general population that in fact sustains their existence.<\/p>\n<p>SUHARTO     <br>\nTangerang, Banten<\/p>",
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