Be Patient, the Check's in the Post

Several regions are experiencing difficulties because of delays in the disbursement of revenue-share and contingency funds.

June 26, 2001

IT APPEARS that people from the Yogyakarta region, usually renowned for being very patient and well behaved, can also lose their cool. What has sent the blood rushing to their heads is billions of rupiah that has a lot to do with thousands of hungry people. Two weeks ago, the rage of the people of Yogyakarta was revealed when the regional government threatened not to raise civil servants' salaries despite being instructed to do so by the central g

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