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Sunday, January 14, 2007

IRONIC REPUBLIC: Indonesia TODAY!

In the begining of this ironic story, I want to explain, I don't have any purpose to discredit my country. I love my country, even I'm an Indonesia-Chinese. I really concern with this condition and see this phenomena from little part of thousand perspectives.

Indonesia as country of IRONIC. In this country strange things happened everyday and invite thousand of questions in my head, (maybe in people head too, or maybe not because they become usual with strange things in this COUNTRY).
These are some fact that I think totally strange:
1. In this country, with full of natural resources, 23,63 million people are dying because of hunger
2. Top 40 richest people in Indonesia have U$22,770,000,000 and there are people with spending less than U$4/month
3. More than 60 million people use mobile phone from total citizen 250 million people and thousand of villages haven't gotten electricity yet
4. There are just 2% internet users from total citizen and 80% from total users, use internet for porn and online games
5. Hundreds of real estate has been build everyday and thousand of slum area has been devastated
6. Physic Wod Olimpiad winner is from Indonesia and many schools in sub urban area collapsed because not enough fund to renovate
7. Many times flood sweeped down some of location in Indonesia and in the same time the farmers complaint because their harvest failed because of dryness
8. Hundreds of Starbucks outlet in Indonesia and many children spend their money for meal/week with the same price as glass of cappuchino in Starbucks
9. With 16.677 islands in Indonesia. Indonesia still import salt from other country
10 Million hectares forest in Indonesia, Indonesia still need import wood from Myanmar, US, Costa rica
11. Indonesia as one of religious country in the world, and still hundreds people died everyday because of sadistic act
12. Million of windows shopper use their spare time search for new products for fun, and million of people seek recycle product to be sold as their primary job

What do you think? Ironic isn't it?

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