As Indonesian, I'm a bit disappointed that agriculture, fishing & forestry are not number 1 exporter in the world. I think only palm oil is number 1, other commodities are not. Our government should invest more in R&D, equipment and else for other commodities.
People are happy that the smelters are open, giving jobs to local people. If china is the main buyer, then why the eu is complaining that we don’t sell the raw ore with cheap price?
Author prefers UK economic model: no growth no pollution just let citizens go poorer and government borrow to survive
Our economy is not about mining, we invest the money from natural resources to infrastructure and other industries. Example, from 14% internet coverage in 2014 to around 79% now.
I'm a maluku man, my salary is big working in nickel, aq hapy because uk can't get nickel indonesia, kresis uk will be bad in the future, 😊,
Indonesia is politically neutral, the West ignored Indonesia for too long
UK success at the cost of millions of colonial subjects…..
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