Getting Poor

While the elites were watching and debating on Soeharto case, the people getting suffered of raising price of basic consumer goods.

Many people in each regions had changed their food from rice to any cheaper foods. In Cirebon for example many people had changed their daily food from rice to sweet potato, because per kilogram of rice is Rp 5000 compare to Rp 2000/kg of sweet potato (Kompas, 24-1-2008).

A mother in Ambon told that she had changed her family menu from chicken to tempe-tahu (beancurd), then had to change again to slices of chicken egg.[RM]

Risfan Munir, writer a book "Participatory Local Economic Development: Concept and Practice" (2006)