Being RESOURCEFUL or Indonesian knows as The Power of Kepepet!!
I think it's been innate in every Indonesian characters, no wonder you'll find lot of CREATIVE people in Indonesia who will never gets tired to find a way to SURVIVE AND THRIVE (RESILIENCY).
Indonesia is very rich country, you'll find a bunch of beautiful nature, culture, cuisine, language, mining resources, creativity crafts. The Richness is not only on the nature and diversity but also the geography, Indonesia is the most islands country in the world, own the biggest island in the world, the biggest tropical forest, the most beautiful and rich of ocean creatures in the world, the best pearl in the world, all the largest mining resource in the world...
However despite all of this richness why still there are so many Indonesian live in poverty? why still so many children cannot earn education properly?! the rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer!!
I sometimes wonder how easy foreigner earn good living in Indonesia, while so many Indonesian are known as helper workers abroad?! I've been living in abroad for years as expert and I know how it works and feels, I admire how that country protect their local people and resources, while still give obligation to expatriate to give back to their country as a return because foreigner has living in their country. I wish someday Indonesia also can treat local people better than foreigner in the future.
When I came to Tual Maluku, one of the richest fishery area in Indonesia, I'm surprised that the price of seafood there is highest than in Surabaya/Jakarta, do you know why? because most of the fishery resources are exported abroad!!! while nothing remains for local people that's why the price is getting higher?!
When I handle fishery project in IBM, I manage to visit fishery center in Jakarta, there I also get a sadly fact that fisherman that sacrifice their live in ocean only got very little payment and no proper life, and all the fish they got from ocean directly sort of by exporter, the best one goes to abroad (again) while the worst one goes to local people!!!
you know what, in Japan, Korea, they have regulation that all the best fish they have is prioritize for local people while the remaining one is for export purpose, you can see how different the regulation is.
Pasal 33 ayat 1,2,3 in our UUD/constitution said all the resources is fully owned by country and USE FOR all Indonesian citizen.
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