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PSLM is sitting in against inequality. Inequality that’s big, that’s global, that affects Domna as much as it affects the garment workers in Indonesia, the diamond miners in South Africa and the students at Harvard. PSLM has made inequality easy for us to understand. A living wage, a floor below which no one should sink. A standard of living. Harvard’s direct responsibility to those it employs. Harvard’s ability to make up the difference...
...these things make it harder for us to argue against inequality. It may be easy to argue that Harvard has a responsibility to its workers, but what responsibility do I have to the workers in Africa, or Indonesia? What is our (rich) country’s responsibility to your (poor) country...
...Sugar Daddy - the rich country that buys Van Goghs and golf courses, gives billions for roads and bridges and gets ripped off when it goes traveling - can't get a break. Since 1969, Japan's government has spent $80 billion in assistance on its Asian neighbors. It is Indonesia's third-largest donor, behind the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. It is India's largest bilateral benefactor. The roads, sewers and airport runways clearly benefit the countries - from China to Cambodia - where they are built, though the money too often has been tied to projects that...
...always something of a compromise candidate, an interim figure chosen to preside over a fractious field in which no single leader had emerged with enough strength to claim the political spoils of Suharto's ouster. Now, it appears that his interim may be coming to an end, and Indonesia's politicians are preparing for yet another year of living dangerously...
Post-Suharto Indonesia, Take 3? Although it was more than three years ago now that Indonesians ended the 30-year tenure of the dictator Suharto, the world?s fourth most-populous nation has yet to emerge from the turbulent political vacuum that followed. That much was clear Monday when Indonesia's parliament voted for a second time to impeach President Abdurrahman Wahid on corruption allegations, opening the way for impeachment proceedings to begin within six weeks. The ailing cleric now appears politically doomed, but the consequences of his ouster could further deepen rather than resolve Indonesia?s political crisis...