Free, at last.

Yes, yes, I am using big words here, but regarding the situation I guess they deserve to be used.

Indonesia is getting rid of the IMF. You know, this huge money fund that doesn't understand that small poor countries cannot afford to pay nation-level mortgages interests at the same rates as the US.

This is important enough to be written all over the place. Argentina, Brazil, South Korea, Viet-Nham... They are all "emerging countries" as we use to say when we think "poorer than us". These countries all have a common point : they are all done with their debt to the IMF. Indonesia is now in the list. For a while I used to wonder why a country with so much natural resources and full of people willing to learn and work would stay in a dangerous state of economic stagnation, if not to say regression, when I realized that if the IMF is not responsible for everything (at least not for the tsunamis and the earthquakes), it has maintained the country in an artificial poverty since long. What I also wondered about was that if even I myself could understand that, why no decisions was taken, why no polemics were running around the topic ? The answer, once again, is clear, but you have to dig few inches to get to the heart of the matter, you have to be on the field and see it from inside. Why should France (for instance) care about Indonesia ? Why should the national news show us the immense distress some people are in back there, when we can't get the eyes off the political mistakes we are permanently committing (stupid mistakes I must say, but mistakes in politic are always stupid, follow my gaze) ? Because it's comfortable. Whose for ? Not for us people, regular joes and joettes, we are deep enough in our own problems to consider the economic entanglement of the planet, but for some people who have a deep interest in us knowing as less as possible about our neighborhood, lest we shall begin to think. Imagine what would happen if we were taught in school that it is very handy indeed to flood a potentially very resourceful country in debts, so the big cats can keep on talking big things amongst themselves without being bothered, and still being able to profit from this country's resources (Total I am looking at you) ?

So now, if only this news is as good as it appears to be(politics being the very incarnation of Murphy's Law, everything can happen) , Indonesia can celebrate it's second decolonization, the economic one.