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Sunday, August 5, 2018

QUESTION FOR DYLAN MATTHEWS GURU: WHY ARE INDONESIANS SO POOR?

It can't be just that they are Indonesians, can it?
It can't be just that they live in the tropics?
It can't be just that they are susceptible to both earthquakes and tsunamis?

It can't be just that they are post colonial indigenous victims, or can it?

Oh. The Indonesians had long been colonized by others, maybe enslaved is a better term, especially it seems by the Chinese, etc, 500 or so years ago, or longer, about the time Western imperialists first set foot in Indonesia. 

Maybe I have this verdict of history quite wrong.

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