May 30, 2009

The success team's job?


Clowns on TV: Neoliberalism! People's economics?

Man: The success team's job? To campaign for the candidates' respective programs... not...

Presidential hopefuls Megawati Sukarnoputri and Jusuf Kalla are engaging in a populist-nationalist campaign pitching themselves as supporting "people's economics" and against "neoliberalism". Critics counter that both embraced policies of privatisation, deregulation and trade liberalisation while in office.

Kompas – May 30, 2009