Sifting Rice with a Fishnet
The government has drawn up a plan to rehabilitate areas devastated by the ill-conceived PLG project. Another "breeding ground" for corruption?
February 3, 2004
DENSE coarse grass covered hectares of barren land off the road in Dadahup village in the Central Kalimantan district of Kapuas when TEMPO visited the area two weeks ago. Ten years ago President Suharto dreamed of turning Dadahup and surrounding villages in the area into a rice-producing center. The dream crashed not long after the project began—not solely because of his fall in May 1998.
The project failed to bring Suharto's dream to r
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