I'm really befuddled, as someone who has been to Jakarta I've seen the debilitating poverty and horrific environments that so many Indonesian s live with day to day.
In the middle of the city of Jakarta, which is built around a river delta with lots of rivulets, there's massive mutli-million dollar high rise buildings, and highways that run either side of these rivulets. Expensive cars with chauffeurs/drivers whiz along these roads, with every available space between them taken up my small motorbikes, more often than not being ridden by entire families, three of four people perched on a 250cc motorcycle, and they're the lucky ones. In the middle of all this on the banks of the rivulets are whole communities living in squalor, drinking water from these rivulets, the very same water that their use to wash their clothes, bathe themselves and urinate and defecate in.
Their homes are ramshackle constructions, of the most heartbreaking nature.
YET, we've an Indonesian President who is spending millions of dollars on sanctioned murders while his own people starve and live in the most horrific circumstances. Where's the compassion there? Isn't that level of horrific poverty one of the major reasons that so many Indonesian s need to engage in crime in order to survive, often narcotic related crime?
Wouldn't the Indonesian President be more successful in eradicating the narcotic crime in his own back yard if he took the money he seems happy to throw at the sanctioned murders and used it to raise the standard of living for his own people?
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