I'm afraid I couldn't resist posting the photo from the front page of today's daily newspaper. The caption for the photo is "POOR MAN'S MEAT: A woman sorts through meat to be distributed to the poor at Bogor's Parung subdistrict Sunday." Yum! Pity we can't see the flies buzzing around. I read today that some of the poor were far from happy however, complaining that they received far less meat than last year and what they did receive was largely bone. So who got all the juicy bits?
The year has started rather badly here in Indonesia with 400 still missing in a ferry sinking and a plane missing with 102 people on board. This comes on top of ongoing floods and landslides. The disasters just seem to keep coming. Another report in the paper states that:
More Indonesians say they are economically worse off compared to 12 months ago and most cite the increased costs of basic goods and travel expenses as the main reasons, an end-of-year survey says.
How citizens here cope on the meagre wages that they receive is a mystery to me. Of course, there are an estimated forty million who are unemployed and don't receive a wage at all. It's hard to imagine how things could get much worse here but of course they could.
1 comment:
Great picture! I particularly like the way the pattern on her blouse goes well with the meat in piles pattern surrounding her. Very artistic. It seems that charity isn't enough these days, even people receiving meat complain that they don't get enough! A tough world isn't it?
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