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Undisturbed meat seller strike

February 23, 2008 Leave a comment

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Food hawkers @Priya school, originally uploaded by A_ndre mobile’s pics.

After the soybean.. now turn to meat to get kicked.. The price was IDR
45.000/kg (USD 5/kg) before end up with IDR 52.000/kg (USD 5.7/kg) in
only few days. The Jakarta Post
reported that the price surge brought hundreds of meat sellers from
Greater Jakarta to protest at the State Palace in Central Jakarta on
Wednesday, demanding the government stabilize rising price. 

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(nokia) remote shutter

February 21, 2008 1 comment

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I’m planning for holiday so I started to unpack my video and camera gear last week.. I found a note labeled ..to buy remote shutter and back up battery pack.

I spent  more than $1200 for  400D SLR and 17-40 f/4 L Series lens last year but too hesitate to buy remote shutter cost only $17. I think I would curse myself if I dont have it handy when freezing panoramic scenes.. but I guess I wont… I will check this at weekend :)

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Food (in)security

February 17, 2008 1 comment

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It should be an enjoyable morning with a healthy breakfast, low GI muesli, blendered LSA beans and soybean milk. But to my surprise.. no soybean. The milk seller apparently wasn’t show up for several days.. At the dinner, everyone’s favorites, tempe, was out too.  The fermented soybean cake had been missing in the nearby wet market for several days. In East Java, police arrested group of people that were accumulating a large amount of soybean in their warehouse.

Last week, soybean price was increase up to IDR 8500/kg from IDR 5000/kg or 70% increase. Cooking oil’s raise from IDR 8500/kg to IDR 11000/kg at local wet market. In Sulawesi, local bean rose from IDR 2000/kg to IDR 7000/kg Some seller claimed that their sales was down to 30%. Former President Megawati who is running for the 2009 election wasn’t forget to blow up ‘tempe’ issue during her informal campaign last week.

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