Bitter pill

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Kompas – June 15, 2013
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Man: Simalakama fruit is sweet too right Mr? (a play on the saying “Like eating Simalakama fruit, if you eat it your father will die, if you don’t your mother will die”)

President Yudhoyono (left) has defended his government’s widely unpopular plan to hike subsidised fuel (BBM) prices – which critics say will do little to help the budget deficit and the resulting inflation will throw millions into poverty – saying it’s a “bitter pill we have to swallow” to save “the nation’s budget and the future of the country”.

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