There's no such thing as a free lunch...Or is there?

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It's official. The next president of Indonesia is former army general Prabowo Subianto. Quite how the next five years will pan out is anyone's guess but hopefully the foreign pundits who always bring up his dodgy human rights record will be proven wrong. Nonetheless, on policy making, Prabowo's popularist move to literally offer the poor 'a free lunch' every day of the week does not augur well for the future. Such a policy - if it ever came to fruition - would cost a phenomenal amount of money and likely lead to huge inefficiencies (food waste) and poor incentives (make people lazy). Another concern is Prabowo's strong nationalist bent. Thus, in the possible event that he finds himself with his back against the proverbial wall in the face of stern economic challenges, there is a big chance that he will simply scapegoat foreigners. But he will have to be careful. Construction of the new capital city, Nusantara, for example, is highly dependent on foreign in

Yoke Paramita Djati Walujo

Miss Bali, Yoke Paramita Djati Walujo, has come out on top (sorry!) in the Bikini Contest for the “Miss Tourism Queen of 2009” held in Xinyang, China.


 Yoke Paramita Djati Walujo
Now that’s all very well and congrats to her, but why did she compete as Miss Bali and not as Miss Indonesia?

I mean there are still people out there who actually believe that Bali is a country in its own right rather than part of Indonesia.

So, if the Miss Tourism Queen – who is usually associated with a specific country – is called Miss Bali, then won’t this only serve to perpetuate this wrongly held belief?

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  1. because Miss Tourism Queen International allows special regions that are famous for their tourism, such as Phuket (Thailand), Borneo (Malaysia) and Bali (Indonesia).
    There is Miss Indonesia in this competition, her name is Patricia Henrietta Eman.

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  2. She is beautiful and looks smart.

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  3. Cantik tapi kurang cerdas , buktinya berjalan di muka umum nggak pakai busana

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