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From Nov. 29 to Dec. 1, 2011 donors, recipient countries, business associations and civil society organizations are gathering in Busan, South Korea, for the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, organized by the OECD-DAC (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development — Development Assistance Committee) and the Korean government. (By Don K. Marut, Jakarta)

Your comments:

Indonesia will never be able to stand alone. Indonesia has long since become a hand puppet.

 Musa

How can Indonesia, a G-20 nation receive aid — a trait of a Third World nation? Does Indonesia really deserve to be called a G-20 nation?

Perple

Foreign aid equals new debt Indonesia has been carried away by debt all because we are lazy to work hard and work smart — a corrupt system. Simply stop the debt. Let’s unite and rise up, we can live without debt.

Ali

There are several types of “development aid” and different conditions attached to them so that to speak of monolithic development aid is misguided and could serve to obscure more than to illuminate.

Mauricio