Who's Behind Expensive Rice?

Roni, a bakso (meatball) peddler in Bandung, doesn't have much choice. Reluctant to raise his merchandise's Rp3,000 asking price, he worried nobody would buy again. This married man with two children was then forced to accept daily earnings of only Rp10,000 to Rp20,000. Such income is not sufficient to provide basic needs for his family. The rice he used to consume is already a luxury: Rp3,750 per kilogram. So be it, Roni decided his oldest chi

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