Last year I was in Jakarta, after meeting with two colleagues from Sahabat Sampoerna microfinance I had an appointment with a consultant that assist us to establish a company. He said, Indonesia hardly has no bureaucracy system or the rule of the game, what is in the mind of civil servant is how to play the game “if we can make it difficult why it should be easier”. In the eyes of reformist, the game is KKN and these practices increase cost of transactions in every day of human life, since a baby born till old man death. There is no wonder, on the chart of the IFC’s doing business survey, Indonesia is on the bottom of the sheet.

Frankly speaking I don’t have any positive sign to maintain my optimist perspective toward the government which is managed by politician and corrupted bureaucratic officers. In short,anyway, there are many ways to assist our fellows by helping them to help themselves lift out from poverty. I believe microfinance can be one of the answers of the above questions

Salam

In response to the other comment by Asep Kususanto, I think the transition era has been too long now… We cannot afford such an infinite timeline for our transition. I am sure we have great people, leaders that can define and bring us to a mature era, an era where Indonesia becomes a great nation, again. Together we can do this.