The government has promised to subsidize sugarcane farmers at the rate of Rp500 per kilogram. What will this achieve?

Abdul Wahid, Chair of the Sugarcane Farmers' Association, was clearly pleased. Upon receiving word of the government subsidy, his face broke into a wide grin. "Thank God," he exclaimed, "The government has finally heard our pleas." This newly decreed subsidy is intended to minimize the losses currently su