The Pork Barrel and Pork Pies

June 16, 2010

Bramantyo Prijosusilo

  • Ngawi, East Java-based writer.

    AFTER burning its fingers in the pork barrel that proved to be too hot to handle the Golkar Party has shrewdly changed its tune and now claims to be pushing for all the villages in this country to receive Rp1 billion from the yearly national development budget! There are nearly 70,000 villages in our country so to give each village Rp1 billion would cost the government approximately an extra

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