Cheap meals from officials' wives

Cheap meals from officials' wives

BOGOR (JP): Members of the Bogor Civil Servants' Wives
Association sold 2,000 cheap meals to the poor in East Bogor
subdistrict yesterday.

The food packages were sold for Rp 500 each to people who have
become unable to make the ends meet because of the economic
crisis.

The meals, consisting of rice, egg, tempeh and vegetables,
were distributed at five bus terminals, the Ciawi roundabout, and
at an ojek (motorcycle taxi) terminal.

Sukiya, the mayor of Bogor's assistant for administration and
development affairs, said the sale of food would continue every
Tuesday and Friday for one year.

The initiative, Sukiya said, was in response to the West Java
Governor's call for regents and mayoralties to provide affordable
food to the unemployed.

He said the local administration had subsidized each meal by
Rp 300. The true cost of each meal was Rp 800. (24/ivy)