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TH supports the opening of foreign gas pumps in Indonesia
Definition:
to let foreign gas pumps to open up their pumps / business in the indonesia market. making them competing head to head with each other and with the national company.
by supporting the opening of foreign gas pump, the market will be more competitive . and the consumer will decide which one is better.. or in indonesia, which one is the cheapest of the bunch, yet still retain the qualities of the top petrol..
by supporting foreign gas pump, we, in long term will kill the nation*currently* only petrol distributor, pertamina, because it still don’t have the quality the consumer are looking for. what’s more is that pertamina is still strugling to clean it self from corruption and nepotism that run wild the company.. that’s in part is the fault of pertamina it self. this will make the national petroleum market fluctuate a lot in the coming years.
but a fluctuation in the petroleum business will absolutely affected the nation economy. if we look back a while, in october actually, when the government decided to increase the price of *minyak tanah* and other petroleum by more than 50% *a first in like indonesia history* that event alone build up the inflation rate and it also made the market crazy, as in price craze.
supporting the foreign gas pumps will not only improve the quality of petroleum in indonesia, it will also help us to breath a bit easier. when a better(RON98 for example) petroleum is burned, it produced less pollution, and thus making life a bit better. and when the price hitch another hike to the galaxy of high price, there will be less motor vehicle operating in indonesia. this will come with some cost tho..
supporting the foreign gas pumps is also in fact complementing with the kyoto protocol that call for a better pollution control. and will prove that indonesia is complying with the agreement. some might argue this, but by providing a *supposedly* better petrol, we do reduce the pollution in indonesia.
if the national petroleum company still haven’t got their stuff ready by the time the foreign gas pumps start operating, they will find some great challenge to gain back the customer they lost to the foreign gas pumps. why would they even lost their customer? first, it’s the oil quality, then there’s services, and transparency in the company... these quality are still missing from pertamina. take quality for example, there are numerous cases where the petrol is being mixed with other substances, in the like of water, lower quality petrol, and or other substances.
TH opposes imposing free-market conditions on debt relief policies
definition
opposes *disapprove of and attempt to prevent, esp. by argument : those of you who oppose capital punishment.* imposing *force (something unwelcome or unfamiliar) to be accepted or put in place - forcibly put (a restriction) in place*
free market *an economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses. Practice- While the free-market is an idealized abstraction, it is useful in understanding real markets whether artificially created and regulated by governments or non-governmental agencies, or phenomena such as the black market and the underground economy , which can be remarkably robust in persisting despite attempts to suppress these markets.
* debt * something, typically money, that is owed or due : I paid off my debts | a way to reduce Third World debt.*
Debt relief is the partial or total forgiveness of debt , or the slowing or stopping of debt growth, owed by individuals, corporations, or nations.
Debt relief for heavily indebted and underdeveloped developing countries was the subject in the 1990s of a campaign by a broad coalition of development NGOs , Christian organisations and others, under the banner of Jubilee 2000 . This campaign, involving, for example, demonstrations at the 1998 G8 meeting in Birmingham , was successful in pushing debt relief onto the agenda of Western governments and international organisations such as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank . Ultimately the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative was launched to provide systematic debt relief for the poorest countries, whilst trying to ensure the money would be spent on poverty reduction .
Arguments in favour of debt relief
Supporters use a variety of moral and economic arguments to make the case for debt relief. Much of the debt was incurred by regimes different from those that currently govern the debtor nations. Supporters of debt relief believe that people in developing countries should not be burdened with debts accrued by dictators, especially as the borrowed finance was so often used for the benefit of the ruling elite, on prestige projects and to bolster the military.
Since the beginning of the HIPC programme, beneficiary countries have used some of the money saved on debt repayments for social programmes:
• In Benin , 54% of the money saved through debt relief has been spent on health, including on rural primary health care and HIV programmes.
• In Tanzania , debt relief enabled the government to abolish primary school fees, leading to a 66% increase in attendance.
• After Mozambique was granted debt relief, it was able to offer all children free immunisation .
• In Uganda , debt relief led to 2.2 million people gaining access to clean water.
Arguments against debt relief
Opponents of debt relief argue that it is a blank cheque to governments, most of which are plagued by corruption, and which immediately go out and contract further debts, partly in the belief that these debts will also be forgiven in some future date. They use the money to enhance the wealth and spending ability of the rich, many of whom will spend or invest this money in the rich countries, thus not even creating a trickle down effect. The money is also used to increase defence budgets, which are then used to promote war. They argue that the money would be far better spent in specific aid projects which actually help the poor. They further argue that it would be unfair to third-world countries that managed their credit successfully, or don't go into debt in the first place, that is, it actively encourages third world governments to overspend in order to receive debt relief in the future.
• Uganda saw a 24% increase in military spending after HIPC.
Free market condition will not make a country like indonesia even in a debt relief policies condition more productivities. as history told us, indonesian people are very open minded. when the hindu first came, they accept the *foreign* item very openly, when islam came, the same thing happened. this told us that indonesia people are very easy to manipulate with *foreign* object. and free market will open the import gate wide open, filled with big corporation, which in turn will bring foreign objects to be sold in indonesia. and by that, it will slowly kill the local business that rely on it’s exclusiveness in the already crowded market...
but by opening indonesia market, it will attract more and more investor to invest their cold hard cash in indonesia,,,
Definition:
to let foreign gas pumps to open up their pumps / business in the indonesia market. making them competing head to head with each other and with the national company.
by supporting the opening of foreign gas pump, the market will be more competitive . and the consumer will decide which one is better.. or in indonesia, which one is the cheapest of the bunch, yet still retain the qualities of the top petrol..
by supporting foreign gas pump, we, in long term will kill the nation*currently* only petrol distributor, pertamina, because it still don’t have the quality the consumer are looking for. what’s more is that pertamina is still strugling to clean it self from corruption and nepotism that run wild the company.. that’s in part is the fault of pertamina it self. this will make the national petroleum market fluctuate a lot in the coming years.
but a fluctuation in the petroleum business will absolutely affected the nation economy. if we look back a while, in october actually, when the government decided to increase the price of *minyak tanah* and other petroleum by more than 50% *a first in like indonesia history* that event alone build up the inflation rate and it also made the market crazy, as in price craze.
supporting the foreign gas pumps will not only improve the quality of petroleum in indonesia, it will also help us to breath a bit easier. when a better(RON98 for example) petroleum is burned, it produced less pollution, and thus making life a bit better. and when the price hitch another hike to the galaxy of high price, there will be less motor vehicle operating in indonesia. this will come with some cost tho..
supporting the foreign gas pumps is also in fact complementing with the kyoto protocol that call for a better pollution control. and will prove that indonesia is complying with the agreement. some might argue this, but by providing a *supposedly* better petrol, we do reduce the pollution in indonesia.
if the national petroleum company still haven’t got their stuff ready by the time the foreign gas pumps start operating, they will find some great challenge to gain back the customer they lost to the foreign gas pumps. why would they even lost their customer? first, it’s the oil quality, then there’s services, and transparency in the company... these quality are still missing from pertamina. take quality for example, there are numerous cases where the petrol is being mixed with other substances, in the like of water, lower quality petrol, and or other substances.
TH opposes imposing free-market conditions on debt relief policies
definition
opposes *disapprove of and attempt to prevent, esp. by argument : those of you who oppose capital punishment.* imposing *force (something unwelcome or unfamiliar) to be accepted or put in place - forcibly put (a restriction) in place*
free market *an economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses. Practice- While the free-market is an idealized abstraction, it is useful in understanding real markets whether artificially created and regulated by governments or non-governmental agencies, or phenomena such as the black market and the underground economy , which can be remarkably robust in persisting despite attempts to suppress these markets.
* debt * something, typically money, that is owed or due : I paid off my debts | a way to reduce Third World debt.*
Debt relief is the partial or total forgiveness of debt , or the slowing or stopping of debt growth, owed by individuals, corporations, or nations.
Debt relief for heavily indebted and underdeveloped developing countries was the subject in the 1990s of a campaign by a broad coalition of development NGOs , Christian organisations and others, under the banner of Jubilee 2000 . This campaign, involving, for example, demonstrations at the 1998 G8 meeting in Birmingham , was successful in pushing debt relief onto the agenda of Western governments and international organisations such as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank . Ultimately the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative was launched to provide systematic debt relief for the poorest countries, whilst trying to ensure the money would be spent on poverty reduction .
Arguments in favour of debt relief
Supporters use a variety of moral and economic arguments to make the case for debt relief. Much of the debt was incurred by regimes different from those that currently govern the debtor nations. Supporters of debt relief believe that people in developing countries should not be burdened with debts accrued by dictators, especially as the borrowed finance was so often used for the benefit of the ruling elite, on prestige projects and to bolster the military.
Since the beginning of the HIPC programme, beneficiary countries have used some of the money saved on debt repayments for social programmes:
• In Benin , 54% of the money saved through debt relief has been spent on health, including on rural primary health care and HIV programmes.
• In Tanzania , debt relief enabled the government to abolish primary school fees, leading to a 66% increase in attendance.
• After Mozambique was granted debt relief, it was able to offer all children free immunisation .
• In Uganda , debt relief led to 2.2 million people gaining access to clean water.
Arguments against debt relief
Opponents of debt relief argue that it is a blank cheque to governments, most of which are plagued by corruption, and which immediately go out and contract further debts, partly in the belief that these debts will also be forgiven in some future date. They use the money to enhance the wealth and spending ability of the rich, many of whom will spend or invest this money in the rich countries, thus not even creating a trickle down effect. The money is also used to increase defence budgets, which are then used to promote war. They argue that the money would be far better spent in specific aid projects which actually help the poor. They further argue that it would be unfair to third-world countries that managed their credit successfully, or don't go into debt in the first place, that is, it actively encourages third world governments to overspend in order to receive debt relief in the future.
• Uganda saw a 24% increase in military spending after HIPC.
Free market condition will not make a country like indonesia even in a debt relief policies condition more productivities. as history told us, indonesian people are very open minded. when the hindu first came, they accept the *foreign* item very openly, when islam came, the same thing happened. this told us that indonesia people are very easy to manipulate with *foreign* object. and free market will open the import gate wide open, filled with big corporation, which in turn will bring foreign objects to be sold in indonesia. and by that, it will slowly kill the local business that rely on it’s exclusiveness in the already crowded market...
but by opening indonesia market, it will attract more and more investor to invest their cold hard cash in indonesia,,,
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