Indonesia's infrastructure promises fail to solve food spoilage problem
Joko administration fails to spend the US$22b budgeted for such projects this year due to a lack of coordination
Sukabumi, Indonesia
POOR infrastructure makes stable pricing difficult at the best of times in Indonesia, but the rural poor are increasingly pinning the blame for wild fluctuations in the price of staples on the policies and unmet promises of President Joko Widodo.
With South-east Asia's biggest economy growing at its slowest pace in six years, and half its 250 million population living on less than US$2 a day, price spikes on foods such as rice, sugar, beef and chill…
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