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Society 2 weeks ago
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Inequality worsens as wealth gap widens
The economic disparity is most apparent in the eastern part of Indonesia, such as Sulawesi and Papua, where extractive industries, which are done by businesses led by wealthy people and driven by Jakarta-centered development, have exacerbated the wealth rift.
Academia 2 weeks ago
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The ‘londo ireng’ state: How Indonesia betrays its indigenous peoples
Modern colonialism no longer arrives in wooden warships or under foreign flags. It sits in executive offices, speaks the national language and cloaks itself in the slick rhetoric of "national development."
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