12 Maret 2009

economy stimulus

Building infrastructure is believed to be one of economic stimulus, especially in this crisis time. Sometimes this infrastructure is built with less consideration what the functionality of infrastructure suppose to be. The infrastructure is built just to make the economy moves or even run.

The sample of this is Japan, and now Obama seems aware of it.
HAMADA, Japan: The Hamada Marine Bridge soars majestic over this small fishing harbor, so much larger than the squid boats anchored below that it seems out of place....

The fruits of that obsession are apparent across Shimane, a rural prefecture about the size of Delaware, where Hamada is located. Each town seems to have its own art museum, domed athletic center and government-built tourist attraction like the Nima Sand Museum, a giant hourglass in a glass pyramid. The prefecture, with 740,000 residents, even has three commercial airports able to handle jets, including the $250 million Hagi-Iwami Airport, which sits eerily empty with just two flights per day.


I suspect the assignment of many(many) state employee in Indonesia is falling into this class of case, they were recruited and paid for making the economy moves.

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