Cane, Cain, and Caning
October 8, 2002
H.S. Dillon* How would one respond to the recent onslaught of multi-media messages amplifying the plight of the sugarcane farmers? Especially, since this follows on the heels of very wide coverage depicting the sorrows of migrant laborers forcibly evicted from a neighbouring economy. What would the protests of Javanese sugarcane farmers have in common with the caning of Indonesian l
*Director of Center for Agricultural Policy Studies