THE naïve question was voiced by students from the Lab School Kindergarten, Jakarta, during a dialog with Vice President Jusuf Kalla, on Tuesday morning last week.

“My granny asks why cooking oil is so expensive now? There are lots of oil palm trees in Indonesia, aren’t there?” asked Jenna sincerely.

“This is because throughout the world oil palm is currently expensive,” explained Kalla. “The government is trying to bring prices d