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        "id": 1084731,
        "msgid": "usage-of-the-decimal-sign-1447893297",
        "date": "2001-12-15 00:00:00",
        "title": "Usage of the decimal sign",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Usage of the decimal sign I was interested in your correspondent Agnes Sawir's comments on the use of the decimal sign in Indonesia. Indonesia is a sovereign country with over 200 million citizens, the fourth most-populous in the world. As such it has many practices and institutions that are unique, many coming from the country's long and turbulent history. Every day, as an expatriate privileged to stay in Indonesia, I come across some new (to me) custom that intrigues me.",
        "content": "<p>Usage of the decimal sign<\/p>\n<p>I was interested in your correspondent Agnes Sawir's comments<br>\non the use of the decimal sign in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia is a sovereign country with over 200 million<br>\ncitizens, the fourth most-populous in the world. As such it has<br>\nmany practices and institutions that are unique, many coming from<br>\nthe country's long and turbulent history. Every day, as an<br>\nexpatriate privileged to stay in Indonesia, I come across some<br>\nnew (to me) custom that intrigues me.<\/p>\n<p>So why should Indonesia even consider changing the manner in<br>\nwhich it uses the decimal sign? We do not insist on all countries<br>\nusing English as their national language, or the US dollar as<br>\ntheir currency just because these are the main language and<br>\ncurrency of the modern world.<\/p>\n<p>Even the computer software available today struggles with<br>\nthese matters -- try and find a simple accounting package that<br>\ncan handle several currencies for example. Better that the<br>\nelectronic media arrange its software to cope with the matter<br>\nthan ask a nation to mend its ways.<\/p>\n<p>DAVID TUCKER<\/p>\n<p>Bogor, West Java<\/p>",
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