There's no such thing as a free lunch...Or is there?
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
I never knew the people of Sunderland were so avant-garde!!!
ReplyDeleteI am sure its all pies and mushy peas up north.
As for the claim the frogs come from Indonesia, I dont want to be too cruel to my fellow countrymen, however I would be surprised if they could point to Indonesia on the map!!!
If the frogs were originally 'free-range' and harvested by Indonesian farmers, then they're nuts and don't understand that these amphibians eat the malarial mosquitoes which breed in the swamps, or munch on the bugs which infest their crops.
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