Quoting: flingwing A political commercial on Metro TV just a few minutes ago had J. Kalla talking about how foreigners had helped build the airports in JKT and Surabaya. However, he said that in his hometown of Makassar, no one but Indonesians built it. Then Kalla exhorted his countrymen to build their country themselves. Christ. If they'd really built them themselves they'd look like one of those cargo cult airports in the Pacific. Wooden planes, headphones and control towers.

A political commercial on Metro TV just a few minutes ago had J. Kalla talking about how foreigners had helped build the airports in JKT and Surabaya. However, he said that in his hometown of Makassar, no one but Indonesians built it. Then Kalla exhorted his countrymen to build their country themselves. Sounds like a pattern. The Shrimp w/the Hitler 'Tashe and the General from the Timor2 HAM investigations are going to help Indonesians build the nation on hatred - or, at the least, exclusion.

Quoting: Derek Gratis ...and is thus a sad indictment of our neo colonialist global economy. Uh-uh. It's closer to being a condition statement for the earth. It's a predatory universe we live in. The strong eat the weak. Businessmen and government employees vie for money to (1) become rich, and (2) to make themselves look good to their constituents to get re-elected, respectively. (NB - except in Indonesia where the reasons may be blurred .)

TEMPO Interactive, Purbalingga: Purbalingga Regent, Triyono Budi Sasongko, has refused to have the giant retail company Carrefour in Purbalingga. “Carrefour asked for permission to open a branch at a former traditional market site. I rejected it,” he said after officially opening the modernized traditional market, Segamas, yesterday (1/6). Triyono explained that giant retail company would remove small and medium entrepreneurs.

TEMPO Interactive, Batam:Bintan’s Indonesian Businessmen Association chairman, Yamin Hidayat, said bureaucracy at the free trade zone/FTZ in Batam, Bintan, and Karimun has hindered economic growth. The regulations, for example, have given additional costs to businessmen due to the slow processing of documents at the customs office. “The regulations should be improved to allow maximum results,” Yamin told Tempo last Friday.