New Program, Old Problems
Rice meant for the poor has not always been received by its intended recipients because of a problem in the distribution network and the presence of not-so-honest officials. What efforts are needed to improve the problem?
January 28, 2003
Providing subsidy to its citizens directly is normally the final alternative after other means and methods could not be implemented. That was the route taken by the government in its cheap rice sale program that was intended for the poor—and popularly known as raskin, the acronym for beras miskin, or rice for the poor. The intended target of the raskin program is the poor living in the archipelago who will be provided with 220,000 tons of c
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