Rich but Poor

THE economic crisis only paid a brief stop at Tenggarong. By the fifth year, this capital of Kutai Kartanegara regency, East Kalimantan, was already primping itself.

Its mascot, the 76-hectare Tourist Island of Kumala in the middle of the Mahakam River, will as planned be equipped with facilities like those in Singapore at a cost of Rp4 trillion. Now there is already a Rp25-billion planetarium, a cable car and modern resorts. By the island stan

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