New Cars and Insensitivities

IT is difficult not to feel sad and helpless—and show more patience—at the start of 2010 witnessing members of the Yudhoyono government and state officials driving around in new cars chosen for their “exclusivity.” At Rp1.3 billion a unit, the cars certainly are too expensive for a government which can “afford” to allocate only Rp200,000 in aid for each family to rebuild its house destroyed in the recent earthquake that devastated Wes

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