Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts

Friday, 29 January 2010

Can Indonesia out of poverty?


Poverty is complex problems. Every country always faces this problem especially developing countries. But this problem seldom can be solved well. In fact when government gives solutions but there is still poverty. Now how reality condition of poverty in Indonesia, condition welfare poor is very sensitivity to fluctuate and change social, economic and politic. We also look that powerless welfare poor often worsen with intervention is not an exact target, for example subsidy and exploitation more SDA. In 2006 happen to improve poor population result natural disaster, although it go down in 2007 of 37,2 million people (BPS). Amount poor household in 2006 of 19,3 million kk (Pusdatin Depsos), percentage poor population is highest in Papua, Irjabar, Maluku, NTT, dan Gorontalo, while it is higher in west java, central java and east java.
Weakness policy for solving poverty is that solution only related with economic not politic and social. In fact poverty is complex problems. Government should give solution how poverty can be solved well. But we don’t may depend on government, poverty is problem together. So we must solve it together. Many poor can’t fulfill the basic requirement because they don’t have enough money. And many foreign investors don’t want to invest to Indonesia again because its infrastructure is not enough for business. Which government policy related with economizing on electrical every time so can't support business. Crisis energy which it will impact to price food is so high. Poor can't fulfill the basic requirement, for example: many poor must eat aking rice and spoiled foods 
Government has strategy to solve poverty in Indonesia but what strategy of government can decrease poverty. With fulfill the basic requirement like as to prepare Instrument and infrastructure education and health, to give subsidy to community in cash or goods, and last to improve access poor to resource in improving opportunity work and revenue. In my opinion Government has attempted to solve problem about poverty but poverty is multidimensional. And I believe if we together solve poverty, Indonesia can be out of poverty. So let's we build Indonesia go in the direction of Indonesia gold in 2020.

Neoliberalism


May be we know about the word of neoliberalism, I think this word is not popular from capitalism and communism but neoliberalism gives many problems in the country. Because the country wants to manipulate other countries, it was done by developed country. In my opinion, formerly Indonesia experienced monetary crisis and it was caused by Neoliberalism. Neoliberalism gives bad impact. Country experienced crisis and for recovering from monetary crisis, for example: when Indonesia experienced monetary crisis 1998 year ago. We could not blame all government’s policy. But I think government role was very important where its policy could impact economy crisis, for example: the price was very high, it caused by hyperinflation in this country, so government did not know, what it would do to solve hyperinflation in this country? Besides that many university student did demonstration. This country was not only experienced economy crisis but also politic crisis. And university student wanted to ask president Soeharto has to retire of president chair.
In 1998, there is no sociopolitical order in Indonesia since 1965, in the history Indonesia experienced reformation period. Where society wanted to change to become is better than before. I think when president Soeharto was still leader in Indonesia, this country felt surplus economy, especially rice. It experienced to grow economy significantly. But economy growth did not hold out a long time. We were so proud to successful to economic growth significantly. What was happen? After that we experienced monetary crisis, this country was fall. We can study reality in 1998, so that this country did not experience monetary crisis again, as like before.
This country had to study in Malaysia, which Malaysia had recovered from monetary crisis quickly. When was happen crisis, Malaysia did not want to ask aid from IMF, because Malaysia believed that IMF would not give good solution but it would make new problem. Here, I would not blame any one, but this country can study from our mistake ago. When we take solution, that problem will not repeat. We know IMF role was very important in the world. But it made many countries had to obey to IMF. Formerly IMF, World Bank, WTO was not transparent, they often manipulated developing counties with asking their aid.