How do you go from free school meals to riots in the streets? To launch what should be the ultimate in popular public policy, good nutrition for children, and yet have a mob looting your finance minister’s home less than a year later is quite a trick. President Prabowo Subianto has managed it nonetheless. It reflects the idiosyncratic way in which he has led Indonesia’s economy and an urgent need to change direction if his country is to escape a looming middle income trap — or a more immediate economic crisis.
從免費校餐是如何演變到街頭騷亂的?推出理應最得人心的公共政策,即為孩子們供應營養餐,然而不到一年,一群暴徒洗劫了財政部長的住宅,這簡直是奇事一樁。這就是印尼總統普拉博沃?蘇比延多(Prabowo Subianto)的手筆。這反映了他駕馭印尼經濟的奇特方式,而這個國家如果想要避開隱約可見的中等收入陷阱,或者是近在眼前的經濟危機,就迫切需要調轉方向。