Incredible Disappearing Subsidies

IF the names of the 10 richest Indonesians are already known, at least according to a foreign magazine, who would bother to look for 10 of the poorest people in this country? Whats clear, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics, from February 2005-March 2006 the number of poor people increased by 3.95 million. With that, today there are 39.1 million people (17.7 percent) whose living costs dont exceed Rp5,000 a day.

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