PREFACE
Wealth inequality is an economic challenge faced by all countries in the world. In every country, there will always be high income and low income people. Unless a country implements full communism doctrine, there will always a high variance in the income of the society of a country. However, the practice of communism to eliminate inequality is not justifiable because the costs of doing so are bigger than the benefits.
Indonesia has been trapped in the world of inequality for so long. This is not a trivial inequality that we are talking about here. There is a huge gap between the rich and poor people in Indonesia. For example, the richest person in Indonesia based on Forbes December 2007; Abu Rizal Bakrie has Rp.50.22 trillion of net worth. It is greatly contradictive if we contrast his financial condition to that of the poverty in Indonesia. World Bank states that people with daily living expenses less than $2/day falls below the poverty line. Using that definition,......
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