To Cancun, Davids and Goli aths

After being hit by various imported products, Indonesia is only now fighting to protect agriculture commodities at the WTO. Belated perhaps, but it should at least be attempted.

September 9, 2003

The World Trade Organization meetings haven't even started, yet half of Gusmardi Bustami's energy has been depleted. Understand-ably so because he has a noble mission to accomplish: to fight for the fate of Indonesian farmers in the "free trade" arena so fraught with deceit. Gusmardi alone must attend a series of preliminary discussions at Geneva, Switzerland, before formulating a draft for the ministerial level event in Cancun, Mexico, Septembe

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