Incredible Disappearing Subsidies
The government fails to prevent additional numbers of the poor.
September 12, 2006
IF the names of the 10 richest Indonesians are already known, at least according to a foreign magazine, who would bother to look for 10 of the poorest people in this country? Whats clear, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics, from February 2005-March 2006 the number of poor people increased by 3.95 million. With that, today there are 39.1 million people (17.7 percent) whose living costs dont exceed Rp5,000 a day.
The figure is not too ir
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