August 20, 2002
Kick Out World Our Free-World
Globalization as you ever heard before, widely means as a success of human future, while every nation alltogether could join to develop a better world--that's it the theory. Whether the practices said another, the stories filling the front pages in recent weeks -- about economic crisis and contagion in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, about President Bush getting the trade bill he wanted -- are all part of the same story, the largest story of our times: what globalization has done, or has failed to do. For Indonesia, in my respect, globalization merely done his lack of job. I really agree with the New York Times which said, globalization need to be reformed.Besides the equality in all form of the theory, the practical world told many worse in result. While every 'powerful country' get it chance, most so-called 'the thirld world' (mostly in Asia, Africa and America Latin) only get its garbage. In every WTO meetings, those countries like a club of beggars waiting to count any trash food discarded by those boss meetings. Yet, the country's people get its mostly more worse.
One ironic example happening here my beloved country, 4000 workers of Nike production agency in Indonesia protested the dismissals following an impending halt in orders. Refering to Joe Friend, "They aren't protesting low wages, they are protesting a cut in orders that will cost jobs. Wages are so low here by western standards, but having some job is so much more important to most people. Sure, they'd love to get paid a lot. But that isn't even on their radar."
Though not very skeptistic about my country, I don't know how to talk anymore. Nevertheless, I'd really hoped that there will any meetings, any chance to rethink our world by what globalization need to turn. We also need to think about the lack of our system (i think it still debated) by the happening of our financial crisis this year. I suggested an inspiring read on George Soros' analysis that our market needs to be regulated. It's a rumor that IMF in such the thirld world is not helping, but killing. Instead of just meet with the mogul's country of WTO or G7 (now G8), we all together need to talk much closer, what's happen with our world?
Posted at August 20, 2002 06:09 PM | World
