The Price of Hikes

The increase in fuel prices, electricity and telephone rates has been strongly opposed by students, NGOs and the business community. The government must carefully calculate the risks involved.

January 14, 2003

All of last week, protests against the government’s decision to raise fuel prices and electricity and telephone rates spread to almost every provincial capital in Indonesia. The protests, which at first could be kept under control, have recently given voice to the public’s discontentment with President Megawati Sukarnoputri and Vice President Hamzah Haz. In addition to burning effigies of the two and stomping on their pictures, protes

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