Placing Our Hopes in Exports

The economy seems immobile, but theres hope as far as exports are concerned.

August 1, 2006

YOU dont need to be an economist to be aware of just how many people are unemployed in Indonesia. On the sides of roads, outside factory gates and in office lobbies, you can see rows of people queuing up in their search for work; and on all their faces is the same look of despair.

The latest data from the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) as regards unemployment and economic growth figures is not yet ready. But, its certainly difficult to deny th

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