`Sticky' Rice

The price of local rice has collapsed because of `flooding' in the markets. Why is it so difficult to ban rice imports?

August 10, 2004

THIS nation has become the repository for everything that is illegal, forbidden or fake. There is counterfeit money, fake college degrees (some in the hands of recently elected representatives, and apparently, also among senior serving officials), illegal campaign funds and even illegal workers. In the economic sector, State Logistics Agency (Bulog) Director General, Wirjanarko Puspoyo, has his own list of illegal products: salt, sugar, cars

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