Turning to ‘Doraemon’
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
THE indoor tennis court at the Bung Karno Sports Stadium in Senayan, South Jakarta, suddenly went quite. Some 2,000 teachers who were present at the peak of the National Teachers Day commemoration on Tuesday morning last week, stopped clapping mid-sentence. They had initially been in an uproar when they heard President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s speech in which he promised to increase teachers’ allowances by Rp250,000 per month.
But when the
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