It looks as if many Indonesians are so wealthy these days that...

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    It looks as if many Indonesians are so wealthy these days that they can squander money in ways most of would find obscene.

    I for one strongly object to any more of our money being sent there when they clearly have too much and are more than capable of looking after their own problems, if they want to.


    "To celebrate their little girl turning six, her family had turned an empty piece of land in Menteng, the most expensive part of Jakarta, into a park for the day.

    Security guards escorted us off the street into another world. Real grass - an incredibly rare thing in this concrete jungle - had been rolled out. There were also fully grown trees and an obstacle course for dogs."


    "Following a massive reduction in the country's poverty rate in the last two decades, one in every five Indonesians now belongs to the middle class.They're riding a commodities boom - the burning and churning-up of this vast archipelago's rich natural resources, including logging, palm oil, coal, gold and copper. This, combined with aggressive domestic spending, low taxes and little enforcement of labour laws, means that those who know how to play the system are raking it in."


    https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-46529582

    Last edited by sierra: 16/12/18
 
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