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Posted by cliff on Saturday, 17. September 2005 at 09:15 Bali Time:

http://www.thejakartapost.com/headlines.asp

There's a picture of all the porn and pirated cd's they steamrolled. More than a million of them. It's after raids in Jakarta. Expect the same in Bali in a couple of weeks.

Prominant in the photo is a DVD of "Sex and the City", sitting among booby mags. I'm not sure if it's being squashed because it's a pirated copy, considered porn, or because of the appalling acting.

While you're there, read the story about the 62 million Indonesians classified as poor. A family of four that spends 700,000Rp (AU$90)per month on food is only "moderately" poor, apparently. To be really poor, a family of four only spends 480,000, or 120,000 for each person on food per month. There's only 16 million people living under these conditions, though.

So if you're spending one Australian dollar on food each day you are in Bali, you're not poor at all. And if your hotel provides free breakfast, then fifty cents for the rest of the day should be plenty.


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